On Sep 8, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Justin Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Rails is a framework, cf is a language. There's no comparing if the two. > > I would disagree somewhat. Rails is a framework, yes, but nearly > everyone who codes for the web in Ruby uses Rails, so framework or > not, it's effectively "the way" and might as well be part of the > language as far as web development is concerned. > There's also another popular web framework for ruby which is a much lower level one. It's called Sinatra, and if you're doing API services, it's usually the goto one. >> Not sure what you're considering to be complicated about it. > > Relatively speaking "@episode = > Episode.find(params[:episode][:episode_id])" seems more complicated > than "url.episode" to retrieve the URL value. > This is not only fetching the url variable, it's grabbing the Episode model from the db >> The author of that blog post looks to be relatively new to rails as >> hardly anyone hard codes params into strings for urls. > > That's the crux of what I was trying to determine. Not being a Rails > developer myself I don't know if what this guy was doing is standard > or if they were just using a more complex method for some reason. > >> You almost always use the rails URL helper functions. > > So if this guy is using a non-standard way to get at a URL value, what > would the Rails equivalent of "url.episode" be? > params[:episode] > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366956 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
