WOBH | Idle thoughts from an idle fellow

I talked about the “nomenlature knot” in the last post but aftertrying to write about it a few times, I came to realize this topic hasmore rabbit holes than Watership Down. So, I’m deferring my post(s)and maybe starting a new series on it. Since I would...

In this post I want to consider how to design around side effects thatmight optionally occur in or as part of an action. I’ll just examinethe copy feature from the last post since it’s convenient to thinkabout, but this probably won’t be the last time...

Today we’re going to start looking into adding a “copy” feature to theCRUD interface created using Ruby on Rails scaffolding–see a coupleof posts back. We have to start with the high level survey of just twoimpementations, and, to keep it brief, I’m...

I learned a funny thing while building a test application for my nextposts, which is that Rails changed their scaffolding templates in 2.7.
I don’t expect it to change my overall plans very much, but here’s alittle tangent on the changes.
Here’s the activity diagram from the last post representing thescaffolding in Rails 6....