I started trying to refactor the routes.rb for Redmine in order to nest the resources and remove some duplication. Unfortunately, I kept running into trouble and had to scrap that plan. So instead I decided to continue on with my controller refactoring and try to improve things there first. Using the wc technique I wrote …
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Refactoring Redmine – the first 30 days
It’s hard to believe that a little over one month ago, I unveiled Refactoring Redmine to my private mailing list. Part of me feels like the book has always been for sale, while another part of me feels like it just launched last week… Since I’m open with much of my business, I wanted to …
Redmine Refactor #132: Convert Timelogs to REST Resource
Now that TimelogController has most of the REST actions it needs, I’m able to convert it to a REST resource. Before 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 # config/routes.rb …
Redmine Refactor #131: Extract Method TimelogController#edit to TimelogController#update
Finally, today I was able to refactor enough of TimelogController in order to start removing the extra code from #edit. Using extract method I pulled out the #update method that will perform the actual database saves for a TimeEntry. Before 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 …
Refactoring Rails Guest Post on RailsInside.com
My guest post The First Step of Refactoring a Rails Application was just posted to RailsInside.com last night. I’m going to write more posts in the series over the next few weeks. If you have a refactoring question that you want me to answer, let me know in the comments.