Doug Johnston wrote:
Thanks for taking over Tom! It's sad that we're losing Kevin, but
it's great to have you stepping in to fill the need. I'm really
excited about this week's meeting and am hoping to come to Rock Bottom
for the pregame festivities. What time are people meeting there?
Let's plan to meet at 6:15pm.
As for talks, I'd have to echo Warren's thoughts that it would be nice
to talk about how to use Rails in non-standard, but common ways. I'd
also love to see a mini talk about routes and how to use them
efficiently. I get my routes to do what I need, but I can't help
thinking there's an easier way to accomplish what I want. Sure, I can
look up solutions to these issues online, but it's great to have an
open discussion with real people! In general, I think it would just
be nice to see how people are using different elements of Rails to
accomplish the job. Does anyone use components? What are different
solutions to the pagination issues? What's the best way to route
nested controllers? When should helpers be used? When should they
not be used?
These are some excellent ideas for talks. I'd love to see these as
presentations.
Basically, best practices for Rails. Like other semi-newbies (and
coming from a more procedural background), I can usually find ways to
accomplish what I want, but I am rarely sure that I'm doing it in the
most efficient, Ruby/Rails/OO way. Knowing and using some of these
best practices would help decrease refactoring time down the road.
Looking forward to Thursday!
Hopefully my talk on Ruby/Rails idioms will provide some insight. =)
Tom
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