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Discussion on: My Ruby Journey: Hooking Things Up

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Thomas R. Koll

Nitpicker here, in the ruby world we indent with only two spaces.

As you're learning Rails, have a look at ActiveSupport::Concern, it's used quite a lot in more recent Rails apps.

Keep learning, I'm sure you'll enjoy programming Ruby :)

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Edison Yap

Oh yes definitely! I was copying it from multiple notes app and got messed up haha, thanks for pointing out!

What's your opinion on Concerns? I've heard a lot of people saying concerns are bad, but I've also seen DHH being a big advocate for it.

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Thomas R. Koll

I like them (in Rails) even though they add such little functionality. It's more about the concept of moving code from your models and controllers into separate files that contain a functionality in its entirety. Make those models small again :)

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Edison Yap

I see! Definitely agree on slimming down. My company's go-to for slimming down model is always Service Objects, so that's what I've been used to.

I think one of these days I should definitely try out concerns! Thanks for sharing :)

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Thomas R. Koll

Serivce Objects and PORO is a must when you write a rake tasks. Processing the input and passing it to the service is all my rake tasks do. Much easier to test.