In today’s post I will show some optimization we can do for models. I’ll focus on how to put methods inside the right model and delegation to get a better code.1. Put method in...

Today's post discusses the first of the behavioral pattern shown by the GoF, the chain of responsibility. This pattern expects a series of commands to be executed and a set of ...

[POST UPDATE ON 19/07/2010 - 15:45] Continuing our analysis of the Rails Best Practices today we’ll see two other tricks to make more readable method of the controller.1. Method...

This second post of the series leaves for a moment the creational patterns and speaks about one of the most important structural pattern: the Adapter. The purpose of an adapter...

Today we continue our analysis of the Rails Best Practices. In the previous post we saw Named Scope, Model Association and Following the same direction, in today’s post we’ll ex...

An abstract Factory provides a common interface for creating families of related objects together. The client object does not bother to build objects directly, but it calls th...

Hello everyone.With this post I would like to start a serie of articles concerning the description of the most common design patterns and how these can be applied with the Ruby ...

Maintain a skinny controller is one of the most important things to increase the readability and testability of the code. Let’s see some practices to move from the logic control...

I’ve decided to dedicate a series of posts to Rails Best Practices because I think it is important to share in order to continuously improve the way you write programs.Write t...

It happens sometimes that you have to implement creation or editing of a model splitted on more than one form. A classic case is a registration form divided into two steps or ...

In a Ruby on Rails application I'm developing, client asked me to add a feature that allows users to download a full picture gallery as a single zip file. Quite obviously, I dec...

Previous posts: Building a Web 2.0 startup: Part 1 – idea and analysis of competitors Building a web 2.0 startup: Introduction In this second post about the startup of ...

Previous posts: Building a web 2.0 startup: Introduction One of the fundamental aspects for the start of a startup, especially in the web world, is to have a good initial i...

This will be the first one of a series of articles describing the way will lead DevInterface to the creation of a Web 2.0 application for the public.In particular, we will discu...

Hello everyone. Today I will show how to implement a viewing system for any model of your Rails application. Suppose we have a model News and we would like to keep track of ho...