Rails No-Nos Now

Daniel Butler — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:45:00 -0400

Kevin Clark of San Diego has posted an article describing several deprecated features of Rails–thing you should fix now or they’ll break later. Quickly, they are:

Accessing Instance Variables You Didn’t Create
Stop using find_all and find_first
Don’t write the AJAX-enabled feature before you write the simple fallback feature.
Stop asking for things not directly related to your problem.
Don’t use scaffolding.
Don’t use components.
Don’t use engines unless you’re going to do it right.
Use layouts more
Don’t use Rails Paginator class
Don’t put controllers into namespaces.

I don’t completely agree with all of Kevin’s findings, but you should at least view the article to be aware of some of the problems that you might encounter using these less than best practices features.

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