Comments on STEPHEN CHU . com: Seeing Rails Resources Clearly

Thanks for this article. I was confused about nes...

2011-11-28T00:20:23.279-06:00

Thanks for this article. I was confused about nesting resources and about resource routing but this helped me a ton. Thanks again man.

Thanks Stephen this was really helpful!

2011-08-13T01:17:34.532-05:00

Thanks Stephen this was really helpful!

I don't agree. If you do have domain concepts ...

2010-02-12T14:34:50.122-06:00

I don't agree. If you do have domain concepts that are completely different beasts but with a same name (your dessert example, or a more common case in the insurance world - endorsement), then it is time to sit down to flush out exactly what these domain concepts should be called to avoid communication confusion. They represent different things, and thus one can do different (rails) actions to them. For example, you "eat" a food item, but you can never do the same to an army.

How you distinguish the different resources is up for discussion, but for sure combining them into a single "desserts_controller" is bad from an API point of view. You would probably call me names if I expose an API on an "attributes_controller" on which it has numerous in-coherent actions you can call.

The gist of this article is not about creating a new controller for anything one can name, but to use the opportunity of naming things correctly to achieve a coherent and meaningful design on the web. I can build you a web app using 5 classes versus 5,000 classes - just choose wisely.

Informative article. I liked your idea about break...

2010-02-09T19:52:09.867-06:00

Informative article. I liked your idea about breaking off a column in to its own controller at first, but the pessimist in me jumped out. What if the resource (table column) is named desert (as in the final course of your dinner), and you have DesertController which handles user desertions (as in, deserting your post). Now you have name conflicts that the only way you will get to solve is by changing the field name, or the controller name, or namespacing. At that point, meal_desert_controller your UserDesertController don't have that nice of a ring to them :)

2009-06-30T14:20:47.221-05:00

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Thanks Stephen!

Your post was a great help ...

2009-01-20T15:59:00.000-06:00

Thanks Stephen!

Your post was a great help in understanding routes and REST

Functional tests would really help create more und...

2007-12-05T07:30:00.000-06:00

Functional tests would really help create more understanding in a test first agile world.

Thanks for the useful articles, man.
Btw, this ...

2007-11-30T12:52:00.000-06:00

Thanks for the useful articles, man.
Btw, this is Bigi.

I guess I am still considered a newbie at Rails, so I find your stuff quite helpful in my learning.

I'm just starting to understand REST-fulness and t...

2007-11-16T02:53:00.000-06:00

I'm just starting to understand REST-fulness and this really helped. Thanks :)

Comments on STEPHEN CHU . com: Seeing Rails Resources Clearly

Thanks for this article. I was confused about nes...

Thanks Stephen this was really helpful!

I don't agree. If you do have domain concepts ...

Informative article. I liked your idea about break...

Thanks Stephen!Your post was a great help ...

Functional tests would really help create more und...

Thanks for the useful articles, man.Btw, this ...

I'm just starting to understand REST-fulness and t...

Thanks Stephen!

Your post was a great help ...

Thanks for the useful articles, man.
Btw, this ...