Application design
The design of Ruby on Rails reflects a definite set of opinions about how you should design your web application. The more you follow these principles, the more the framework does for you. Use of the model-view-controller pattern is central to Rails. The Active Record pattern, as implemented in Rails, is at the heart of how applications communicate with the database via models. As Rails has evolved, use of RESTful interfaces, as a pattern for designing controllers and routing URLs, has also become a key element.
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The seminal document on REST, written as a PhD thesis.
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The Rails Way: Tracks: Part 1 (Premature extraction)
Better alternatives to extracting simple extension as 'acts_as' modules.
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The Rails Way: AssetsGraphed: Part 3
Another example of moving code from the controller to the model.
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The Rails Way: AssetsGraphed: Part 2
Using objects instead of ids.
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The Rails Way: Skinny Controllers
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The Rails Way: SignOut: Part 2
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The Rails Way: SignOut: Part 1
Refactoring an existing application to a RESTful design.
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From the README: BackgrounDRb is a ruby job server and scheduler. It main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long running tasks. Since a rails application blocks while servicing a request it is best to move long running tasks off into a background process that is divorced from the http request/response cycle.
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An assortment of “best practices” for designing Rails applications.
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