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Virtual Attributes And Attribute API Discussion

Ariel Diaz Bermejo Ariel Diaz Bermejo

Nice. I'd love to see an screencast with the ActionCable feature

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Videos on how sockets, http, building a web framework, etc... All work would be awesome!!!

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First of all, thank you for all the knowledge sharing. Small feedback, though... You spent 27 out of 31 minutes presenting the problem, and only the rest for the solution. I understand the need for context, but I think your videos should be about the solution, not the problem. Happy holidays.

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I disagree with you. I think that an approach on the problem makes you learn more. It's the old story of: "give him a fish" or "teach him how to catch a fish". But I also looked how many time was passed at that 27 minutes. And I was "WTH" LOL. I find kind of funny how difficult things can be when you are not aware of the available tools.

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Interested to watch those videos! I'm also interested to watch videos about ActionCable and how to deploy Rails app that has ActionCable to Heroku.

Btw, .to_bool is not built in right? It's from this gem right?

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Innokenty Longway Innokenty Longway

Thank you, Chris!

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Andrew Cockerham Andrew Cockerham

would definitely like videos on how rails works and web frameworks work - would be super useful!

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It would be very interesting to see how rails and web framework works

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Hi, web framework from scratch would be super usefull! 20 yrs ago (damn I am old:) I tried to implement my own object oriented "framework" for Borland Pascal as I was unable to learn their TurboVision. After third take I found myself that I was writing a TurboVision clone, stopped and it just clicked in my brain and I was able to use TurboVision :-)

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Martin Grenfell Martin Grenfell

Great video, I enjoyed the discussion.

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Martin Grenfell Martin Grenfell

Also, enjoyed the peek at the underlying rails code - not so scary after all :)

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Interested

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Chris Apolzon Chris Apolzon

I'm curious if you looked at how a boolean attribute works in an edit form (ie for a persisted record). I have a boolean virtual attribute that controls whether to advance to a file upload form - no need to persist the value in this case, but I do want it to default to false and be available on both edit and new forms.

If you try to render a form for a persisted record with a boolean (I haven't looked into what happens with other types) virtual attribute, you will get a ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError. Unfortunately the default option does not seem to work in this case, so to get around it I had to override the getter for the virtual attribute; I'm not sure if this is a bug in the current implementation or if there's something I'm missing.

Here's my override method (I originally thought I could use check self[:my_attribute] against nil but even that will throw the MissingAttributeError) - obviously the fact that I'm having to use send to access the private #attribute method feels like a code smell to me:

`ruby
def my_attribute
value = send(:attribute, :my_attribute)
if !value
false
else
value
end
end
```

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Thank you, man. It helped me a lot!

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I don't post so much so first : thanks for the screencast on the site, I find them very valuable :)
I just stumbled upon this screencast, so I know this is an old topic but is there still any plan on this video series about building a web framework ? It would be awesome, either way I found some articles online but if anyone got some resources to point out on this topic I would really enjoy it.

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Thank you so much for giving such great and valuable information.

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