Since John passed the ball to me, it'll probably be easier to write an
email first than a blog post.
The primary goal I had for this weekend was to make headway on a
refactoring of the admin interface toward a conventional RESTful
design. These changes will be rolled into the 0.6.10 release to give
time for developers to update their extensions before 0.7.
Clinton Nixon helped refine the design of the parent controller for all
primary resources in the interface and converted a number of the
controllers and their specs to the new design.
Rick DeNatale showed up midday and paired with me while I was working on
refactoring the Page interface, which happens to be the most complicated
one. Like a good pairing partner, he kept me honest about writing specs.
Adam Williams started writing integration specs for the admin interface
using his spec_integration plugin and was joined midday by Mark Imbriaco
in a pairing session. Many bugs were squashed and edge cases discovered
thanks to them, including an esoteric bug involving an extension that
only gets loaded in test mode. We'll be reducing the number of
controller unit/functional specs and relying more on integration specs
going forward.
Brian Landau worked on creating an extension migration generator and
specifications for the other generators.
Andrew O'Brien implemented a much needed and obviously missing "to_slug"
method for the String class, among other things.
As I mentioned before, I worked on creation of the
Admin::ResourceController and conversion of most of the existing
controllers to the RESTful design. In the course of this, I was able to
contend with the dirty-tracking "feature" of Rails 2.1. The existing
models, including Page, should act as expected.
You can follow our work in the 'rest' branch of the core repository.
This branch will be squash-merged once ready for the mainstream.
Josh French -- please fill us in on what you and your group did on
Saturday; I missed a lot of that.
Cheers,
Sean
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