Comment by r00k | Hacker News Reader

Comment by r00k | Hacker News Reader

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Hi there! I'm the author. Thanks for your feedback.

> "There is nothing in the post to indicate that the InheritedResources gem is any more state of the art than standard scaffold controllers"

I think you may have missed my point (which, as the author, is probably my fault) :) It's not that inherited_resources controllers do anything better than the standard controllers. It's that each controller does exactly the same thing, but one is 81 lines shorter.

> "The fact that the author uses dateless posts and comments (SEO) does not add to its credibility for me"

There are dates on each post (check the top left). Also, you say credibility goes down because I have comments (which you seem to think are for SEO purposes)? I'm afraid I don't follow at all.

Ah, it's a design element. I actually remember looking at that area and noticing the stitching and that the border looked nice, but to be honest my brain only saw a Levi's tag hanging there (it didn't look like a date). Also, there is no year. Anyway, mea culpa, I'll look harder next time.

Sure, it's 81 lines shorter, but I don't know what's going on there, either. Its one thing to express a method in an elegant fashion, but an entirely different thing to hide it off someplace, which is how I read what is happening here. I'm guessing there are some instance variables available afterwards? Plus, it's an additional dependency.

And yeah, I read the title "Why You Shouldn't Use Rails' Scaffolded Controllers" and "...the state of the art has moved on" to mean that what you were talking about was supposed to be better.

Yeah, fair enough, the date is a bit easy to miss. Not my favorite aspect of the theme I'm using.

Sure, it's 81 lines shorter, but I don't know what's going on there, either.

Sure, but I'd imagine most developers have the default controller actions memorized by now (I do). So, this class you're inheriting from does exactly what you're used to. Only now, you don't have repeated controller code and functional tests everywhere. Really, this is an application of the DRY principle to app/controllers.

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