http://rails-bestpractices.com Learn the best practices of rails app and share your rails best practices en-us It's very common for a rails developer to use time_ago_in_words to display time like "5 minutes ago", but it's too expensive to calculate the time in server side, you should utilize client cpu to calculate the time ago. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/105-not-use-time_ago_in_words">see more</a><div><p><b>Related Posts</b></p><ul><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/26-move-code-into-helper">Move code into helper</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/55-generate-polymorphic-url">Generate polymorphic url</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/57-substituting-before_filter-load_object">Substituting before_filter :load_object</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/72-remove-empty-helpers">Remove empty helpers</a></li></ul></div><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> flyerhzm 2012-02-10 14:32:51 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/105-not-use-time_ago_in_words http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/105-not-use-time_ago_in_words Business model methods should be named after the logic / business value they provide, not the implementation details. Violations to this practice tend to show up on ActiveRecord models. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/90-name-your-model-methods-after-their-behavior-not-implementation">see more</a><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> brasten 2011-12-05 21:07:01 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/90-name-your-model-methods-after-their-behavior-not-implementation http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/90-name-your-model-methods-after-their-behavior-not-implementation Rails developers always pay more attentions on models and controllers refactoring, they don't take care about views modularization, that makes view codes most difficult to maintain. Here I recommend you to use cells gem to write more reuseable, testable and cacheable view codes. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/89-use-cells-to-abstract-view-widgets">see more</a><div><p><b>Related Posts</b></p><ul><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/8-model-collection_model_ids-many-to-many">model.collection_model_ids (many-to-many)</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/9-nested-model-forms">Nested Model Forms</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/24-move-code-into-controller">Move code into controller</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/25-move-code-into-model">Move code into model</a></li></ul></div><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> flyerhzm 2011-11-06 10:39:34 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/89-use-cells-to-abstract-view-widgets http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/89-use-cells-to-abstract-view-widgets rails migration provides a convenient way to alter database structure, you can easily add, change and drop column to a existing table, but when the data in existing table are huge, it will take a long time to alter existing table, you should try to merge/optimize the db alter sql statements. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/87-optimize-db-migration">see more</a><div><p><b>Related Posts</b></p><ul><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/20-isolating-seed-data">Isolating Seed Data</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/21-always-add-db-index">Always add DB index</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/32-double-check-your-migrations">Double-check your migrations</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/46-use-say-and-say_with_time-in-migrations-to-make-a-useful-migration-log">Use say and say_with_time in migrations to make a useful migration log</a></li></ul></div><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> flyerhzm 2011-10-30 09:00:25 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/87-optimize-db-migration http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/87-optimize-db-migration By default, Rails generates seven RESTful routes(new,edit,create,destroy,index,show, update) for a resource, sometime the resource only needs one or two routes, so just user :only or :except while defining routes to speedup the routing. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/86-restrict-auto-generated-routes">see more</a><div><p><b>Related Posts</b></p><ul><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/10-overuse-route-customizations">Overuse route customizations</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/11-needless-deep-nesting">Needless deep nesting</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/12-not-use-default-route-if-you-use-restful-design">Not use default route if you use RESTful design</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/73-split-route-namespaces-into-different-files">split route namespaces into different files</a></li></ul></div><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> yorzi 2011-08-19 09:21:15 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/86-restrict-auto-generated-routes http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/86-restrict-auto-generated-routes Using tabs can mess up the spacing since some IDE's use 4 spaces for a tab, while others use 2, and some people don't use tabs at all, a mix of tabs and spaces causes things to not line up in most cases. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/81-remove-tab">see more</a><div> <p> <b>Subscribe</b> to <a 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href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/rails-bestpractices-team-blog">our team blog</a>, you will get more information about rails_best_practices gem.</p> </div> guolei 2011-06-02 06:42:31 UTC http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/77-create-base-conroller http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/77-create-base-conroller When the business logic of models becomes complex, it's very helpful to keep a consistent code structure that is agreed by team members. <a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/75-keep-code-struture-in-models-consistent">see more</a><div><p><b>Related Posts</b></p><ul><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/1-move-finder-to-named_scope">Move finder to named_scope</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/2-use-model-association">Use model association</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/4-add-model-virtual-attribute">Add model virtual attribute</a></li><li><a href="http://rails-bestpractices.com/posts/5-use-model-callback">Use 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