Tutorial

When V is for Vexing: Patterns to DRY Up Your Views

Bruce Williams

Date: Thursday, May 17
Time: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Oregon Ballroom 201

Note: this tutorial has sold out
The view layer can easily become the most complex, messy, and hard to maintain part of a Rails application. This tutorial will walk you from basic to advanced patterns to tidy, reduce, and restructure your view code to shorten development time and lessen developer stress.

Topics will include:

  • Block helpers vs. partials
  • Advanced forms using form builders
  • Structuring for CRUD
  • Building error handing frameworks
  • Useful plugins and resources
  • Debugging approaches and tools

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