When will Depot sample be updated to 2.1?

Just curious.

Thanks – wg

Thursday, June 05, 2008

I see its been updated to work with 2.1 … but the code doesn’t seem so.

For example on p.131 you have “respond_to { |format| format.js }” whereas in 2.1, I’d expect something more like this …

respond_to do |format| format.html { ... } format.xml { ...} format.js …
end

do…end and {...} accomplish the same thing (there is a minor difference as to precedence order, but that doesn’t apply here).

The nested {...} blocks are optional, and aren’t needed in this case.

The net is that the following are essentially identical:

respond_to { |format| format.js }

respond_to do |format|
  format.js {}
end

Let me think about this a bit more.

You’re right. I still think it might be better to re-write the code for the Depot app using “do” statements for a number of reasons. First, 2.1 generated code uses this. Second, I think it makes for the most straight-forward way of falling back to plain HTML in non-AJAX-aware browsers and adding new formats.

Anyways, like you said … they both accomplish the same thing. It just seems the “do” is more 2.1 and makes for more easily understand code when it comes to the cases mentioned above.

Thanks

OK, I’m convinced. The next beta will use the following form:

respond_to do |format|
  format.js
end

Hi I’m from a Delphi background and I must say that the second example feels much more natural and readable to me.

Whatever I feel about the code examples provided I have to say that if this is the way that Ruby is going then this is the way I would like to be shown how to do things by this book.

Just my tuppence worth.

Thanks Sam! Looking forward to the next drop.