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James Golick is an engineer, entrepreneur, speaker, and above all else, a grinder.

As CTO (or something?) of BitLove, he scaled FetLife.com's traffic by more than an order of magnitude (and counting).

James spends most of his time writing ruby and scala, building infrastructure, and extinguishing fires.

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resource_controller 0.5

Sep 03 2008

I've been really bad about releasing new versions of r_c. The last version that I actually released officially was 0.2. Well, enough has happened that it's time to get official about things.

What's New

  • Singleton controllers are now supported, thanks to Bartek Grinkiewicz (grin). Just inherit from ResourceController::Singleton, and you'll get a set of default action options that makes sense for a singleton controller. As always, there's more info in the RDoc.
  • It's possible to properly inherit from r_c controllers now. However, you have to use the declaration syntax (calling resource_controller in your controller's class definition, rather than inheriting from RC::Base) to make it all work right.
  • The flash helper now accepts a block, which means that you can interpolate in your flash messages. (i.e. create.flash { "#{@post.title} successfully created!" })
  • Thanks to Jonathan Barket (his github is here), the scaffold_resource now generates RSpec specs, if RSpec is installed in your app.
  • Lots of bugs and little issues were fixed.
  • All r_c development is officially moved to github. Follow the repo here, if you're not already.
  • From now on, r_c will only be supported as a gem dependency. Gem plugins are the new hotness; love them.

Contributors

Lots of awesome people contributed to this release.

Spree

As I mentioned before, Spree, the "Open Source Commerce Platform for Ruby on Rails", has moved to r_c. That also means that the Rails Envy guys' awesome new screencast site Envy Casts is powered by r_c. Since spree is open source, it makes a great example app for r_c. If you're looking for examples, the Spree source is a great place to start.

Get It

Add it as a gem dependency:

config.gem 'resource_controller'

Install it as a gem manually:

$ sudo gem install resource_controller

Or grab the source:

$ git clone git://github.com/giraffesoft/resource_controller.git

As always, the RDoc is available at http://docs.github.com/giraffesoft/resource_controller.

Rails commerce platform Spree moves to resource_controller

Aug 12 2008

Spree wanted to become RESTful, so they chose resource_controller to help them keep DRY. At least some of those changes now seem to be merged in to master.