CRUD, Validations, and Partials

Ruby on Rails Intermediate Rails Tutorial
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/intermediate-rails-2
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The instructor mention that there are other ways for the sorting the shouts but did not enumerate the options he was talking about. Was I thinking maybe the other option is sorting in the controller? Would love to know the other options as well.

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You can sort in the controller, but from my understanding, it’s not best practice to do so. I believe it’s better to having sorting methods within your model, then use them in your controller whenever necessary.

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Here’s a good reference on WHY it’s usually not such a good idea to use default scopes for the curious.

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I noticed the commenters here mention default_scope (which I generally agree with, I would probably manually order the results in the view or controller), but I feel that that was a small part of the lesson which was fairly articulated why it was dangerous.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video, it’s really a breath of fresh air to watch someone building an app from scratch, without shortcuts, and talking their way through it. Still very relevant in 2020.

Cheers!

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I am having issues following this tutorial I have come across several errors , current_user is empty and root cannot occur twice

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Invalid route name, already in use: ‘root’

The fix for this issue is to rename our first root route with :as option.

  constraints Clearance::Constraints::SignedIn.new do
    root to: "dashboards#show", as: :authenticated_root
  end