View Components in Rails

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Argues that object-like view components replace sprawling partials and before_filters, using Merb Parts, Rails Parts, cells (app/cells generators) and Apotomo for interactive widgets; shows a speaking_events cell with show/head states, per-item and per-state fragment caching and explicit cache keys, generators creating app/cells and test helpers, and widget trees for notes with AJAX-driven create/update events. Demonstrates production use on democracynow.org and a Rails 3.1 app where components render, cache and nest successfully, reducing controller bloat while keeping CSS/JS placement as a noted caveat.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:34render_component
3. 3:24View Directory Structure
4. 11:43How do we handle this?
5. 22:35Caching
6. 30:55Apotomo - Events

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