Mistakes
- 1. Stupid things I’ve done
- 2. Stupid things I’ve done In Ruby and Rails
- 5. We all make mistakes That drink, that girl, the morning after That chicken, the biting, mom laughing her ass off
- 6. But we learn Drink less or pass out Don’t pee on chickens
- 8. 8 Mistakes for you to learn from
- 10. Hacking rails to combine 2 models in one model
- 11. • Modify default queries • Provide setters / getters for “inherited” attribbutes • Allow validation and errors on “inherited” attribbutes • All transparent
- 12. Rails goes from 1.1 to 1.2
- 13. • Modify default queries • Provide setters / getters for “inherited” attribbutes • Allow validation and errors on “inherited” attribbutes • All transparent
- 14. Don’t hack rails internals
- 15. acts_as_taggable _on_steroids
- 16. Lot of overhead for a list of words • Two extra tables • SQL isn’t meant for search • ActiveRecord Model overload!
- 17. Save the list of words • No extra query for tags • Search with Sphinx • Generate tagclouds separately
- 19. REST principal But not always
- 20. attr_protected and attr_accessible
- 21. Controllers should control requests
- 22. Flame shield Up!
- 23. Prototype
- 24. Use jQuery or MooTools
- 25. Mephisto
- 26. Anything else! or Wordpress (PHP)
- 27. ActiveRecord
- 28. ActiveRecord For batch processing
- 29. ActiveRecord = Lots of memory Batch = Lots of stuff ActiveRecord + Batch = Lots and Lots of Memory
- 30. Use DataMapper or write your own queries
- 31. alias_attribute
- 32. alias_attribute Not using it
- 35. R.T.F.M.
- 36. Conclusions and questions?