Chinese proverb: ‘May you live in interesting times’. Yes, I know it’s meant as a sugar-coated insult. Yet developing a Facebook app has been exactly that … interesting. Luckily as a developer I prevailed, but it didn’t happen overnight. (more…)
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With all the hard work going about, I only just recently noticed this cute litte helper. A helper function named ‘dom_id’ will turn any ActiveRecord model into a handy string that everyone uses to identify DOM ids. (more…)
The short of this story: the Invite Friends module on Bemba.com gave a ‘permission denied’ for the better part of the first day after launch. But it was fixed really quickly. Read on for more thoughts about this (hairy!) subject.
Using Rails helpers to hide the cruft
Published by March 2nd, 2008 in Tech and Uncategorized. 0 Comments
Views are the messiest part of an application. Nested divs, content inside layouts inside boxes inside partials, and a dash of javascript with it’s own ugly syntax. Last week I presented a good way to clean up views using partials with layouts. But the “proper” way to cleanup views is using helpers. (more…)
By necessity, our views contain lots of repetition. We have “content boxes” with rounded corners. By virtue of MSIE, these boxes are actually boxes inside boxes inside boxes. An example.
…again. I have blogged about this before but it bears repeating. I am in the process of a rewrite that’s turning out pretty massive. Just now a functional test revealed something I would surely have missed.
Every web application has lots of forms and Bemba is no different. And where there are forms, there is potentially invalid input. Hence, validation. As you’d expect, this too is an area with many “dos” and even more “donts”.
One of any social application’s key aspects is often importing contacts. There are a couple of ways to do this. Many wrong ones, and one right one. Our friend Frank Oxener has pointed us to the best one yet.
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