new controller examples

June 30th, 2008

There’s been a lot of discussion about clarity over DRY lately. This is something that I’ve been espousing for some time, but recent posts by Jay Fields, Mikel Lindsaar and Dan North have gotten me thinking about it again with more focus.

With this in mind, I’ve been refining the examples generated for restful controllers when you run script/generate rspec_scaffold with the rspec-rails plugin. I’ve got them now where I’m pretty happy with them, but I’m curious to hear what you think. I’m not going to tell you what I changed or what to look for, I’m just going to ask you to look it over and post your comments.

There are two listings: the generated code and the output you get from running the examples. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

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