Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: /cc @steveklabnik @j3

Using the Draper Gem, Round One

Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: /cc @steveklabnik @j3

August 23, 2012 Tagged: decorators draper oop rails testing Comments (View) Using the Draper Gem, Round One Draper is a handy new gem for extracting logic normally held in helpers and views into something Ruby developers love: objects! Helpers are a great means to an end, but most of the time, our helpers accept arguments, a great sign that the method is procedural instead of being a method on the object we’re passing. In my Intro to Test-Driven Rails workshop (which I’m holding September 17-18 in San Francisco and September 24-25 in Boston), one of the apps we build is a simple todo tracker. I decided to try out Draper in the codebase and see how things turned out; let’s dig in to some code and see what it can do! Here’s the helper in question: # app/helpers/todos_helper.rb module TodosHelper def completion_link(todo) if todo.completed_at? link_to 'Incomplete', todo_compl...

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A few comments about Draper on the @thoughtbot blog [link]
@steveklabnik » 23 Aug '12, 2pm
RT @joshuaclayton: Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: [link] /cc @steveklabnik @j3
@ProxyGear » 23 Aug '12, 2pm
RT @thoughtbot: A lot of logic spread across your views and helpers? Here's how to use the Draper gem to clean things up: [link]
@joshuaclayton » 23 Aug '12, 1pm
Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: [link] /cc @steveklabnik @j3
@thoughtbot » 23 Aug '12, 1pm
A lot of logic spread across your views and helpers? Here's how to use the Draper gem to clean things up: [link]
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Using the Draper Gem, Round One: [link]
@JamesKLavin » 24 Aug '12, 1pm
RT @joshuaclayton: Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: [link] /cc @steveklabnik @j3
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@stecb » 23 Aug '12, 9pm
RT @joshuaclayton: Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: [link] /cc @steveklabnik @j3
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RT @joshuaclayton: Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: [link] /cc @steveklabnik @j3
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@husseinp » 23 Aug '12, 2pm
RT @thoughtbot: A lot of logic spread across your views and helpers? Here's how to use the Draper gem to clean things up: [link]
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RT @thoughtbot: A lot of logic spread across your views and helpers? Here's how to use the Draper gem to clean things up: [link]

Using the Draper Gem, Round One

Started playing with the Draper gem and wrote about my experiences/thoughts: /cc @steveklabnik @j3

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