Rails Best Practices -

Simplify render in views

04 Dec 2010

Richard Huang

render is one of the often used view helpers, we can pass object, collection or local variables. From rails 2.3, more simplified syntax for render are provided. Read More

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Generate polymorphic url

23 Sep 2010

Richard Huang

If you want to generate different urls according to different objects, you should use the polymorphic_path/polymorphic_url to simplify the url generation. Read More

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Do you experience that your website renders slow due to loading a lot of javascripts, especially loading some third-party javascripts? Move script tags to the bottom of body can speed up the render of your website. Read More

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use OpenStruct when advance search

25 Aug 2010

Alvin Ye

use OpenStruct when advance search Read More

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Use render :collection Rails when possible

29 Jul 2010

Helmut Juskewycz

Replace instance variable with local variable

24 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

In partial view, we can use the instance variable directly, but it may be confused and make it hard to reuse anywhere, because we don't know exactly which instance variable can be used, so use the local variable in partial with explicitly assignment. Read More

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Move code into model

24 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

According to MVC architecture, there should not be logic codes in view, in this practice, I will introduce you to move codes into model. Read More

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Move code into helper

24 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

According to MVC architecture, there should not be logic codes in view, in this practice, I will introduce you to move codes into helper. Read More

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Move code into controller

24 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

According to MVC architecture, there should not be logic codes in view, in this practice, I will introduce you to move codes into controller. Read More

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Nested Model Forms

22 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

Use accepts_nested_attributes_for to make nested model forms much easier, this feature is provided by rails 2.3 Read More

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model.collection_model_ids (many-to-many)

22 Jul 2010

Wen-Tien Chang

When you want to associate a model to many association models by checkbox on view, you should take advantage of model.collection_model_ids to reduce the code in controller. Read More

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