Rails Models: Fat, Not Obese

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“Fat models, skinny controllers” is a mantra in the Rails community, with good reason: It produces better code. Move the complicated business logic into the model, make the model “smart”, and let the controller just take care of managing traffic. And don’t forget “no logic in the view”! I have seen this advice misused however, mostly by taking it too far. For example, the carrierwave gem (which is awesome in … Read More

Usability Alert: Apple

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Apple, is this the best you can do? An unclear message about a provisioning profile where the details of the message are buried off the screen to the right, with no way to scroll right to view the rest of the message? XCode wins again.