Tag Archives: rails

Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests!

Posted by on February 2, 2012 40 comments

It really surprises me that there are people arguing that writing controller tests doesn’t make sense. Probably the most common argument is that actions are covered in acceptence tests along with checking if views are properly rendered. Right? Right…well that’s …

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Making ActiveRecord Models Thin

Posted by on August 1, 2011 20 comments

“Skinny Controller, Fat Model” is a well known best practice in Ruby community. Everybody seems to agree with it and follows it. It’s pretty clear what a skinny controller is. The question is what is a fat model and what …

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Unobtrusive JavaScript helpers in Rails 3

Posted by on September 8, 2009 1 comment

A while ago I have written a post about JavaScript helpers in Ruby on Rails and tried to explain why they are a bad idea. It’s hard to believe for me that it was almost 2 years ago! Since then …

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Why JavaScript helpers in rails are evil

Posted by on October 30, 2007 No comments

Ruby on Rails gained so much attention and appreciation mostly because it simplifies the development process of AJAX-driven applications. When I started to learn Rails I was already very familiar with other MVC-based frameworks, and actually I’ve created one myself …

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