Posted by Tom | May 7, 2007
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I was very pleased recently, to come across this remark in a post about Hobo:
don’t be mistaken that this is another scaffold, it’s not, far from it.
(from Funcoder – thanks!)
IMHO scaffolding is a very widely misunderstood concept and one that has caused a good deal of confusion. The only description of scaffolding I’ve heard that really holds water is from DHH: they’re a learning aid. Ironically, I think DHH unintentionally caused a lot of the initial confusion by featuring scaffolding so prominently in the early build-a-blog screencast. A lot of people saw that screencast and thought “Wow! Rails is building a big chunk of my app for me!”. That was a misconception.
Posted by Tom | May 4, 2007
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I’m thinking more and more that a great way to document Hobo is with a collection of “Hobo Recipes”. So I’ve created a wiki page where we can capture ideas for recipes. There’s only two there at the moment but I’m sure it will grow fast.
Posted by Tom | May 3, 2007
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The forums are getting really busy, which is a great sign that Hobo is starting to gain some mind-share. It’s so busy that it’s getting harder for me to keep up. If you look at a few posts, it quickly becomes clear that the main issue is lack of documentation. There’s an obvious conclusion here – writing docs is a better way for me to help you all than answering lots of individual questions.
Posted by Tom | May 1, 2007
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I forgot to mention — there’s a small breaking change in 0.5.3, object_table@skip_fields has been renamed to just skip (that’s the skip_fields attribute of <object_table> using a syntax that just popped into my head). The reason being that you can now use that attribute to skip both fields and associations.
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