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Do experienced Ruby on Rails developers use scaffolding?

In the Ruby on Rails tutorial, I read something that suggested that experienced developers do not use scaffolding since they tend to like to just write the code to connect the MVC on their own. In a ...
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Why decouple view and controller (web)?

Why can't we put them in the same page, like each action paired up with its view? Not using code island, but controller code at top then view code at bottom? What are the problems with this approach? ...
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Multi MVC processing vs Single MVC process

I've worked fairly extensively with the MVC framework cakephp, however I'm finding that I would rather have my pages driven by the multiple MVC than by just one MVC. My reason is primarily to maintain ...
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Rails: controllers vs models which should handle file manipulation

This post by Jamis Buck about keeping Rails controllers skinny has always stuck with me. I have an app in which a zip file consisting of an XML file and some images is uploaded and used to create the ...
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Are session aware Models a bad thing?

I'm thinking specifically in Rails here, but I suspect this is a wider question. In a Rails web application I'm using data from the session in models in order that the models know who is logged in. I ...
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Should one declare alternative response types (e.g. JSON) in Rails controller actions even if not utilising them?

Just wondering what the accepted convention is for Rails controller design. Currently, every controller in my app that I've written it set up to send a JSON response when necessary. Thing is, I only ...
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Organising MVC App with virtual model using external API

I am creating a rails app with following constraints It has no database It uses a web API to store and retrieve the data The connection to the web API is via a custom gem. The Gem has a basic ...
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Which controller should I put for a search action that touches many different models?

I currently have the following models and am designing search functionality that searches within these 3 models: Locations Users User_friends Should I create a search controller or should I put the ...