Confounding URL typists since 2007.
I have a confession to make: I’ve placed too much trust in MySQL’s query planner. By the phrase, “too much trust,” I mean to say, “any trust, at all, ever.”
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No, not the drug — the Ruby gem! Have you ever written code like this?
Model.where(:attribute => 'value').map(&:id).each do |model_id|
# ...
endI’m guessing you have, even if only as you were just getting started learning Rails/Ruby. It’s a bad idea.
Why, I’m glad you asked! It’s been a while since I’ve made any updates about Squeel — since before RailsConf, actually! A lot’s been added since then.
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I just read the blog post that got some traction on HN last night, entitled “What the hell is happening to rails?” It goes on to list a litany of complaints against changes in Rails 3.x, ranging from the default commenting of the catch-all route to, yes, of course, CoffeeScript. They all end up sounding a lot like “I don’t like change,” an argument we’ve all heard before. The difference is that Steve Coast, the post’s author, casts himself in the role of a crusader for the newbies. He says that he, personally, “gets” why these changes were made, but that the most recent versions of Rails are actually harder to learn than the older ones were. The post highlighted two things, to me:
Today, I’m feeling mostly recovered from my first ever RailsConf, so I thought I would take some time to reflect on what I learned there, and share it with you, my dear reader. So, here we go, in no particular order…
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So, I conducted an introduction to Ruby on Rails workshop last night and just finished up a list of book recommendations for the attendees. I thought I’d share them here, in case anyone is looking for a few good starter books to learn Ruby on Rails. I went with 2 recommendations for Ruby, and 2 for Rails, because It’s really important to understand Ruby if you’re going to start hacking away at Rails. A deeper knowledge of Ruby helps make all the Rails “magic” more understandable.
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I’ve been hard at work trying to finish up Squeel before RailsConf (if you’re going, and you’d like to meet up, feel free to stalk me). Here’s what’s new since my last post:
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