On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Fernando Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > In my views I often find myself doing: > > <%= user.login %> > > These get scattered all over the application. Now imagine I change the > user's login to name. What happens? It blows in my face. Sure tests can > catch it, but writing tests for that purpose is too painful. > > So what kind of tips / ideas / idioms / Design Patterns / other? do you > use to truly decouple the View from the Model. > > One should never access object's attributes like this in the view, and > yet we see this in almost all tutorials, books and what have you. It's > now hard for me to get rid of that bad habit, and I don't even know how.
#!/bin/sh cd app/views for file in */*erb; do cp $file $file.tmp sed -e "s/user\.login/user\.name/g" $file.tmp >$file rm $file.tmp done -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
