I can't believe people are still using GUMBIES when there are so many better alternatives.
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programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like
"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.
GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.
See why Microsoft, OpenAl and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."
and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is
chaussurre
Maybe there wouldn't be as many issues with the crystal maze if GUMBIES POSTED DOCUMENTATION. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WORK YEARS ON A STABLE GUMBIES CLIENT SPIDER API AND NOT WRITE A LINE OF DOCUMENTATION DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO NOT USE YOUR SOFTWARE???
jv (verification badge × 7)
Oh and WHY THE FUCK THE OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED NPM PACKAGE FOR GUMBIES HAVE BEEN IN VERSION 0.1.1 FOR SEVEN YEARS AND SEEMS TO BE DEVELOPED BY "powerwolf112", who hasn't answered a single message in GitHub since 2021????
For all the bells in hell, there are massive websites that are using this amateur crap to defrumbulate their typescript decorators!
anarchywoofwoof
found this thread while trying to debug an issue just checking if anyone knows whether GUMBIES is backward compatible with Pea Gravel playground deployments or if its exclusive to Woodchips thanks in advance
Every time I want to do something, I have a look around the baffling ecosystem of frameworks and end up writing it from scratch because it's easier than wading through the bullshit.
I fed this into chat gpt asking for documentation to add to the gibberish and confusion:
GUMBIES: Sharding Sandcube for Woodchips Playgrounds
Overview
GUMBIES is a robust, expressive sharding sandcube designed for testing and deploying large-scale Woodchips playgrounds. It serves as a versatile tool to automate and streamline the watersliding phases of the Woodchips workflow, allowing your team to focus on the essential chipping activities.
Key Features
Sharding Sandcube: GUMBIES provides a lean and efficient environment for sharding, allowing for the creation and management of scalable Woodchips playgrounds.
Expressive Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and streamline processes, enabling your team to achieve quicker and more efficient Woodchips deployments.
Woodchips Workflow Integration: GUMBIES seamlessly integrates into Woodchips workflows, enhancing the testing and deployment experience for development teams.
Benefits
Efficiency: GUMBIES accelerates the testing and deployment phases, reducing the time spent on setting up and managing Woodchips environments.
Scalability: With sharding capabilities, GUMBIES supports the scalability requirements of large Woodchips playgrounds, ensuring optimal performance.
Compatibility: Trusted by industry leaders like Microsoft, OpenAl, and Bloingo, GUMBIES is a reliable choice for Woodchips workflows.
Getting Started
Installation
npm install -g gumbies
Basic Usage
Initialize a new Woodchips playground:
gumbies init my_woodchips_playground
Configure the playground settings:
cd my_woodchips_playgroundgumbies configure
Start the Woodchips playground:
gumbies start
Visit our documentation website for detailed instructions, advanced configurations, and troubleshooting.
Testimonials
"GUMBIES has significantly improved our Woodchips workflows, providing a reliable and efficient platform for testing and deploying". Microsoft
"The expressive automation capabilities of GUMBIES have streamlined our development processes, allowing us to focus on Woodchipping without distractions." OpenAl
"Bloingo trusts GUMBIES for its scalability and compatibility with Woodchips. A valuable addition to any development toolkit." - Bloingo
Support and Community
For support, bug reports, or feature requests, visit our GitHub repository or join our community forum here.
Embrace the efficiency and scalability of GUMBIES in your Woodchips workflows. Get started today for a smoother development experience.
The GUMBIES page being one sentence per scroll scroll scroll is right on point for a fuckload of projects. Even the text feels like it was copy pasted from a real project
Look, the crystal maze is absolutely essential to run Woodchips without a waterslide. You can complain all you want, but unless you want to run back to Microsoft for your woodchips deployment, this is the way. I'm not saying Gumbies is perfect, here, just that it's the only viable unix implementation. If you want come up with your own sandcubing solution for Flurble, be my guest.