I love you beth cooper part 5 For o the r updates, follow

I love you beth cooper part 5

For o the r updates, follow peepcode on Twitter here. The initial prototype performs a fuzzy search on paths and lists file modification dates. You can contribute your own froth over the design and content of this article with the Neanderthals at Hacker News. The RubyAMP bundle for TextMate shows a simple list of open windows, but without fuzzy search. This article is heavily styled and is best viewed at PeepCode! DISCLAIMER: Reg Braithwaite delivered this quote in a completely different context1, but I think its applicable to the design of almost any software API. Illustration by Mike Rohde. The Rails router has been written and rewritten at least four times2, including a recent rewrite for the upcoming Rails The syntax is now more concise. But never mind making it shorter! Its time for a but I think its applicable to the design of almost any software API. Illustration by Mike Rohde. including a recent rewrite for the upcoming Rails The syntax is now more concise. But never mind making it shorter! Its time for a final rewrite : Lets get rid of it altoge the r! The ir meaning is blurred in the context of REST. The yre an unhelpful layer between programmer and protocol. Lets get rid of duplicate functionality already implemented in the controller. If you need to redirect, take action based on the user agent, or examine headers, that should be done in a controller! And lets start thinking in URLs, resources, and APIs instead of doing image caching in models or asset bundling in view helpers. Thats the controllers job. It scales better, too. Routes are unnecessary configuration. The seven standard controller actions are legacy. Become intimate with your URLs dont abstract the m away. Decrease the distance between thought and implementation. Let the controller do its job. A big part of the problem with a routing layer is that it abstracts the developer away from the URLs that define the application. This leads to poor API designs and convoluted solutions to o the rwise easy problems. This epiphany came while writing a few Sinatra applications. The exact URL for a handler sits right in front of my eyes as I write the code for it. I cant ignore it. As a result, I find myself spending more time thinking about how my URLs are designed. Should I be serving JSON from the same controller that serves the HTML interface, or should it be organized separately? In contrast, you can write an entire Rails application without ever looking at a URL. The design of URLs is delegated to the framework, out of sight and out of mind. This isnt to say that we need to lose the good parts of how Rails works with URLs. URL helper methods like are a great idea for reducing duplication and typos. The y could be implemented apart from any router. I love URLs. I dream about the m at night. I think about the m before I think about anything else.