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Opinion: Magento Hell !

Overriding a class in Magento. The nice way to do it is to define your own module and override the class. (2 xml files, 1 source file. distributed over the source tree :S ) 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
	<modules>
   		<Company_Shipping>
			<active>true</active>
			<codepool>local</codepool>
  		</Company_Shipping>
	</modules>
 </config>

This didn't work. No errors, no message just didn't activate my module.
This did work. Find the differences:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
	<modules>
   		<Company_Shipping>
			<active>true</active>
			<codePool>local</codePool>
  		</Company_Shipping>
	</modules>
 </config>

(Check the word codepool instead of codePool)

Every time I'm working with Magento I get these kind of problems and issues. It takes to much time to make simple changes. Way to much configuration. No descent error messages. Files littered across multiple folders.

:S

Makes me glad I can work with Spree (and Rails) most of the time. With nice convention based overrides. Gem support. Nice deployment. Git friendly etc. ;)

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