Robby on Rails

• Using mod rewrite for custom routes before Routing existed.
• Hobbling together my own svn deployment scripts before Capistrano.
• Trying to remember the various render_* methods and the correct order of arguments for find_first and find_all.
• Wondering WTF #inject does
• habtm with extra attributes
• Piggy-backed AR queries
• distributing custom diffs with my vendor/rails deployments before plugins

It may have been ground breaking at the time, but old Rails kind of sucked :)

I rather forget all the deploymentwoes before mongrel came along ;)

• Actually writing javascript by hand in the views
• Reading the source of prototype to learn how to use it
• Having a “live” controller for AJAX requests
• Components (yuch)
• killall “project_name/public/dispatch.fcgi”
• twiddling with Apache FCGI settings so I wouldn’t max out the tiny amount of RAM on my VPS
• db changes before migrations
• @content_for_layout & @params

Definitely using mod_rewrite, before native routes support, sucked hehe

I also remember me trying to optimize the queries before Eager Loading came out and creating pseudo-plugins in the lib/ directory….. It was a great time :)

• Being the first and only typo user on MS SQL :)
• Killer zombie fcgi processes on textdrive

require 'article'
class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
  model :article
end

class BloggerService < ActionWebService::Base
  web_service_api BloggerApi
end

I remember feeling so happy that components were going to solve all my problems :-)