How's the development of Hark coming along? Any progress? - James
On 9/20/06, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:57:37 +0200, Casper Fabricius wrote: > > > I think this sounds like a great project, and you seem to have made the > > right choices, at least for my liking. What could be extra cool, was to have > > an ambition about being completely CRUD using Simply RESTful, most of all > > because I'd like to learn from that accomplishment - and it would 100% > > compatible with all the nice API stuff etc. coming out of that. > > I've thought about that, but I'm not convinced yet that CRUD maps nicely to > the idea of logging in. In fact, most of the time, I suspect, you'll never > even explicitly call the login action; you'll be going to a page on the > site, and it'll have a before_filter to an authorization function that will > redirect you to the login page. > > Of course, since the controller itself is so lightweight, there's nothing > preventing you from defining your own CRUD actions, whether you are mapping > CRUD to the account or to a login session. I expect that the built-in > controller will serve as a scaffold more than anything. But, to me, > verb-based actions are a better choice for Hark, at least till I see an > argument otherwise! > > > I also think your spec is really nice - it seems map perfectly to a set of > > integration tests. Is this some kind standard; rspec? > > Good eye - they are, in fact, the output of running a set of tests using > rspec (http://rspec.rubyforge.org). rspec doesn't yet do integration tests > in the Rails sense (multiple controllers/simultaneous sessions), so I'll > probably end up writing those under Test::Unit, but someday I hope this > project can be completely spec-driven. > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > engine-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org > -- * J * ~ _______________________________________________ engine-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
