No One Is Perfect » post-redirect-get http://watchitlater.com/blog A reluctant foray into the world of blogging. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:32:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Conversations with Spring http://watchitlater.com/blog/2011/03/conversations-with-spring/ http://watchitlater.com/blog/2011/03/conversations-with-spring/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:50:03 +0000 Tom http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=256 Not that long ago I gave a ThoughtWorks geek night presentation on Post-Redirect-Get and how to mess with the Spring Framework to make it happen. I’ve put up the presentation and the code that I used for it on GitHub. Feedback is always welcome.

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Whenever I play with Rails, or for that matter any other web framework, I get stuck on trying to find a problem to solve (or a set of requirements). Fortunately the Agile Development with Rails book from the Pragmatic Programmers has a nice little bookstore application that I can develop iteratively. I’ve put my latest adaptation of their depot application to use post-redirect-get (even works with ActiveResource scaffolds), UUIDs as ActiveRecord primary keys, HAML, SASS and RSpec on GitHub. Feedback is always welcome.

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