Ruby on Rails Monday, May 16, 2011

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On May 16, 2011, at 2:31 PM, "wbsurfver@yahoo.com" <wbsurfver@gmail.com> wrote:

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> So I had done some things in the past with map.resources in the
> routes, but I never really fully understood all of it, especially when
> there was more than one level with children such as:
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> map.resources :bookmarks, :has_many => [:comments]
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> I had kind of rushed through some examples and I should probably
> study that a bit now that I have some time to do so.
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> I seemed to recall I had written some mixin modules to support some
> of this. The other thing that is a little frustrating is I get alot of
> questions in interviews on my previous work. I no longer have any of
> that code to look at and it was government work and there is no way I
> could have saved any of the code.

Nor could you have passed it on anyway. I got requests like that too in the past. My stock answer was a polite "no, it was done under a classified clearance."

> People these days seem to ask alot
> more questions than years ago as well.
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I agree. It's necessary because of the flood in the market of people that were not programmers and engineers getting those jobs in the late 90's/early 2000's. They ended up writing bad unsupported code that these companies got stuck with. Just grin and bear it. They're just trying to not get burned again.

B.


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