Rubyists

The way the rjs and builder template handlers work in rails is nice. I do a lot of work with csv for generating reports, and having all the csv generation code in the controller doesn't seem to fit the MVC paradigm. I dug in to how ActionView template handlers work in Rails 2.1 and came up with the following solution.

I use firebug for all of my javascript debugging. It’s an excellent application, but one thing that has always bothered me is that rail’s built-in RJS exception handler shows it’s output in an alert. Firebug has the very handy console.log() function. Why can’t rails use that?

Now it can.

Ugly way to create a hook for your class which wraps any method you create in any filters you wish to add. In this case simply states the new and old method names.