Maintainable Templates
summary
Templates stop being a mess when presentation logic moves into small, testable objects: use the masked credit card example to see a decorator hide formatting, adopt the decorator pattern or the draper gem for model-specific view behavior, extract UI-element logic into a story summary view object (presentation model) that renders itself, and replace repeated form markup with a custom form builder or gems like simple_form and tablecloth so changed HTML or labels updates once and actually fixes the maintenance pain.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:57Neglected templates in Rails
- 2:01Markup repetition with partials
- 3:25Logic dangers in templates
- 5:17Helpers for view logic
- 7:42Decorator pattern for views
- 11:32Draper gem
- 13:18Presentation models
- 18:31Clean templates with objects
- 20:15Custom form builders
- 21:23Internationalization tips
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