Category Archives: Conventions

A smarter Rails url_for helper

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Joshua Flanagan

Problem In my Rails application, I want to be able to determine a URL for any given model, without the calling code having to know the type of the model. Instead of calling post_path(@post) or comment_path(@comment), I want to just … Continue reading →

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Convention over lots of code

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Chad Myers

I’m in the middle of writing my last FubuCore series post before I proceed to the FubuMVC series of posts.   The post is called “Stringification” (String-eh-feh-k-shun) and it’s about using conventions to remove a lot of code that deals with … Continue reading →

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Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

I often need to send data from my entities to the client in JSON format to enable rich AJAX functionality. It isn’t practical to serialize the entities directly, so they are first flattened to a data transfer object (DTO) before … Continue reading →

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