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"Has anyone implemented mutli-table (class table) inheritance in Rails, as apposed to single table inheritance (STI)?"
- There are some plugins that nobody has tried, such as inherits_from
- What about a view to represent the super set of tables and rows?
"We're looking for a dead-simple, drop-in JS rating or 'starting' plugin."
Check out the start-rating jQuery plugin. Any other suggestions?
At Pivotal, we are passionate about test driven development, keeping things DRY, and writing readable and understandable code. Satisfying all of these desires can be challenging, especially when writing test code. In particular, ActiveRecord extensions present several challenges: which models using an extension should we test? How do we both test our extension in isolation while also testing all model's usage of that extension? Is it even worth it?
The answer is yes, it is worth it, and it's also fairly easy, readable, understandable, and DRY. I will present both a common problem and a solution, using a cumulation of technologies and techniques from multiple Pivotal projects, in particular using acts_as_fu to create laser-targeted, isolated, and disposable ActiveRecord models for testing extensions and RSpec shared behaviors to minimize the amount of duplicated test code.
Interesting Things
application.rb vs. application_controller.rb: As we all know,
ApplicationControllerbreaks with Rails convention and lives in theapplication.rbfile, notapplication_controller.rb.Be careful if you create anapplication_controller.rbfile of your own, as this can confuse Rails class loading and might result in Rails deciding not to loadapplication.rb.Google Webmaster Tools: Note that if you are using Google Webmaster Tools that statistics are different for www.example.com and example.com (sans www).
Nested Model Forms are coming in Rails 2.3! There is even a patch in progress.