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Objects on Rails
A developer notebook on applying classic Object-Oriented principles to Ruby on Rails projects.
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Object Oriented Programming Comes to Rails
decent_exposure helps you program to an interface, rather than an implementation in your Rails controllers. Sharing state via instance variables in controllers promotes close coupling with views. decent_exposure gives you a declarative manner of exposing an interface to the state … Continue reading
Counters for Partials
Sometimes I like to number rows using a counter when rendering lists of things: <% @products.each_with_index do |product, i| %> <li class=”product_<%= i %>”><%= product.name %></li> <% end %> They are handy for testing, among other things. Of course, if … Continue reading
Rails 3 resource routes with dots; or, how to make a Ruby developer go a little bit insane
This one cost me at least an hour of frustration. So apparently the Rails router has considered the dot (“.”) to be a “separator” character along with the slash (“/”) since version 1.2. I don’t know in what context this … Continue reading
The Trifecta of FAIL; or, how to patch Rails 2.0 for Ruby 1.8.7
It’s an oft-stated fact that most disasters result not from a single point of failure but from a combination of failures reinforcing each other. I wouldn’t term the problem I ran into last Friday a disaster, but it certainly cost … Continue reading
Revision-Stamp Your Rails Apps
One of my biggest pet peeves in doing QA is when I spend half a day trying to track down why a bug I thought I’d fixed has cropped up again, only to discover that the reporter was looking at … Continue reading
Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby
(The title of this post is intended to be deliberately provocative, as well as being a nod to Steven Colbert’s “The People Destroying America” segments. It’s provocative because I want to get people talking about this issue. I don’t actually … Continue reading
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Announcing NullDB 0.0.1
I spent the afternoon coding an alternative to the ARBS and UnitRecord database-elimination plugins. Definitely scratching a personal itch, as I had a project where I wanted to use one of the above-mentioned libraries but i just couldn’t seem to … Continue reading
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