Why does everything suck?: Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
If you need to "originally" write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business.
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The associated record has its own universe of things; when delegating calls to it, you ca not stub methods on the associated record...
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The problem
When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app
:
app/assets/fonts
app/assets/images
app/assets/javascripts
app/assets/stylesheets
Wit...
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Namespacing: why `uninitialized constant` error may occour in `development` but not in `test` environment
Example:
class Book::Page
end
class MyBook < Book
def new_page
Page.new # has to be `Book::Page` in development to make it work
end
end
Method new_page
may throw an error when it was called during browser inte...