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skinny models! yay!

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:46:13 +0000

This guy doesn’t deserve credit for this idea, but his explanation is on point.

Rails3 Upgrade Intro

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:54:01 +0000

I launched into a rails 3 upgrade for my main side project last night. I’m going to use it as an excuse to blog about a bunch of things that I’ve been meaning to write about, but never got around to.

Here’s a quick look at the scope of this app:

$ rake stats
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Name                 | Lines |   LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Controllers          |  1867 |  1616 |      23 |     154 |   6 |     8 |
| Helpers              |   403 |   351 |       0 |      55 |   0 |     4 |
| Models               |  3310 |  2701 |      58 |     331 |   5 |     6 |
| Libraries            |   441 |   401 |       2 |      38 |  19 |     8 |
| Integration tests    |   600 |   340 |       4 |       6 |   1 |    54 |
| Functional tests     |  8763 |  8421 |      22 |      21 |   0 |   399 |
| Unit tests           |  5230 |  4794 |      85 |      10 |   0 |   477 |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
| Total                | 20614 | 18624 |     194 |     615 |   3 |    28 |
+----------------------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-----+-------+
  Code LOC: 5069     Test LOC: 13555     Code to Test Ratio: 1:2.7

I don’t know, can you?

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:05:10 +0000

There has been, and continues to be, a lot of talk around writing semantic code. One thing that gets under my skin, and I wish it would stop, is the continued use of #can?(:do_something) as a pattern for handling permissions. I have no problem with the pattern itself, it’s the verb I take issue with. “Can” asks for the ability to do something, “may” asks for permission” Get it right people.

Doesn’t anyone else remember the following scenario from second grade?

Miniature you: “Teacher, teacher! Can I go do the bathroom, please?”
Mrs. WhatsHerName: “I don’t know, can you?”
Miniature, pissed off, you: “Well, yea, I can…”

I’m looking at you cancan, canable and walruz.

If you still don’t get it read this.

As far as I know, the only plugin out there that handles this (semantic issue) correctly is Makandra’s Aegis. And they are GERMAN. It functionally works about the same as well. So props to them for that.