Hey Dave, I was "baby sitting" my 14-yo granddaughter for a week, so that kept me away from my project. Thinking about my project during some idle time today, I realized I should put my setup-code in the Vendor- controller. As I was about to that, I reread your post to and discovered you had provided an answer buried in a lot of distracting verbiage:
> you're putting controller logic in your view That's the simple and direct answer to my question. I appreciate you providing it and wish that it had been provided as the first line of your response. Nevertheless, thank you for confirming what I thought about today. Best wishes, Richard On Jul 20, 4:24 pm, Dave Aronson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 16:08, RichardOnRails > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know of no threshold of Rails expertise before posting questions on > > this newsgroup. > > Nope, nor even for posting answers, as I amply demonstrate. <:-) > > > I suspect that people with high levels of Rails respond to a question > > like mine: > > - in order to enlarge the "Rails community" > > - for: the joy of helping their fellow humans > > - with the expectation the their responses will bring the consulting > > opportunities > > - or heap scorn on those whom they perceive as inferior > > I think you have read more into my post, than I intended. I certainly > did not mean to heap scorn on you, only to help you realize what > specific concept you seem to be failing to understand. Putting a name > on it helps you find information about it. You seem to be in need of > brushing up on MVC because you're putting controller logic in your > view, and apparently some people have corrected you on this > (anti-)pattern several previous times. (Unfortunately, controller and > view are not like chocolate and peanut butter....) > > Peace? Joy? Consultancy? ;-) > > -Dave > > -- > Specialization is for insects. | Professional:http://davearonson.com > -Robert Anson Heinlein | Programming: http://codosaur.us > -------------------------------+ Leadership: http://dare2xl.com > Have Pun, Will Babble! -me | Et Cetera: http://davearonson.net -- 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.

