selection_options_for now on github
Mark's Rails plugin for selection_options_for is now available on github. More details are in the Extended section.
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-- Mark Windholtz
CART Feb 2008 Presentations
Here are the presentations I gave at C-ART in Feb 2008.
Xp-Scrum Comparison
- Focuses on XP, where another presentation focused on Scrum
Lean Software Development
- A quick overview
Golden Road of Agile
- Proposal for uniting various approaches to create the Golden Road of Agile.
- Includes: Unix, Ruby, Rails, XP, Scrum, Lean Software Development, Thoughput Accounting.
- The feedback I got from the group was that it needs a better definition of the problem that it is addressing. So that is now on my TODO list.
-- Mark Windholtz
Mountain Goat Software, site upgrade
AgileDNA constructed site gets an upgrade.
-- Mark Windholtz
Plugin: selection_options_for
Many selection lists in an application do not change and so the quickest way to code them is to put the list in the code itself. For example:
- Child, Adult, or Senior.
- Male or Female.
- Yes or No.
selection_options_for manages static selection lists. If you selection lists are dynamically generated this is not the answer.
selection_options_for allows you to
- keep the display labels in the model
- store a 1 character flag in the DB
- test the value with methods in the code
class Article < ActiveRecord::Baseselection_options_for :file_type_option,[ :pdf, 'PDF'],[ :hmlt, 'HTML'],[ :text, 'X', 'Textfile']end # class
Then you can do stuff like ....
assert file_type_option_pdf?
OR
More examples are in the README file. Code available here ... or use ...
svn export --username anonymous http://agiledna.com/svn/pub/plugins/selection_options_for/trunk selection_options_for
Thanks to Scott Barron for code review and tips on tightening up the code.
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