Friday, May 14, 2010

Rails MVC: How to deal with fat models

My presentation on the last DRUG (Wroclaw Ruby User Group, D stands for Dolnoslaskie) about Rails fat models.
I covered some of the techniques we use in our projects:

  • current_user is never nil
  • a class for each user type - User, Guest, Admin, SuperAdmin, Partner
  • remove "if" statements from views
  • minimize the number of "if" statements in controllers and models
  • modules to extract common behavior from models
  • one controller action calls only one model method
  • in controllers everything goes through current_user
  • using custom exceptions for Model - Controller communication



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey there! Was the talk recorded?

Andrzej Krzywda said...

It wasn't recorded.

If anyone is interested, I'm always happy to present the topics over Skype or any other way.