Dennis Hackethal

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  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #337.

When all I change during a revision is the criticism flag, the activity log just says ‘no changes’.

#337 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

As of 9702c05, a revision activity now says that the idea was either marked or unmarked as a criticism.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #351.

When a comment is a criticism on another criticism, the activity should say ‘So and so addressed criticism #…’

#351 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Done as of 735c3cc.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #351.

When a comment is a criticism on another criticism, the activity should say ‘So and so addressed criticism #…’

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #340.

Fix typo

The activity feed just shows top-level criticisms as regular ideas. They should be shown as criticisms suchjust like when they are child ideas.
3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #340.

The activity feed just shows top-level criticisms as regular ideas. They should be shown as criticisms such like when they are child ideas.

#340 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

such like

‘just like’

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #339.

Should I give the icons in the activity feed colors?

#339 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Done as of 8269806.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #344.

Should probably show the explanation in a revision, when given. In the activity feed, that is.

#344 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Done as of 7e7c6cd.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #338.
Should probably show the explanation in a revision, when given. In the activity feed, that is.
3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #342.

Highlight current nav item.

#342 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Done as of 146e967.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #342.

Highlight current nav item.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #331.

Not as of #330, they couldn’t.

#331 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

It doesn’t really matter. This would be like calling a controller action from a helper method. Not something people do.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #340.

The activity feed just shows top-level criticisms as regular ideas. They should be shown as criticisms such like when they are child ideas.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #339.

Should I give the icons in the activity feed colors?

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #338.

Should probably show the explanation in a revision, when given.

3 months ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal started a discussion titled Veritula – Meta.

Discuss Veritula itself. For feedback and suggestions.

The discussion starts with idea #337.

When all I change during a revision is the criticism flag, the activity log just says ‘no changes’.

3 months ago
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #334 and unmarked it as a criticism.

Accidentally marked as a criticism

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #333.

Having explored three different ideas, I believe #302 – having regular helper methods to render Hiccdown structures – is the best.

The idea is not without its flaws, but having to qualify a method name by, say, calling it idea_form instead of form is still better than manually having to pass the view context around all the time and not being able to trivially access instance variables.

So I’ll stick with #302 for now, which is the status quo already.

#333 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

I think the thing I’m really fighting here is Rails being object-oriented. Which I can’t do anything about.

Not sure the Rails team realizes how much OOP reduces the extensibility of Rails.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted idea #333.

Having explored three different ideas, I believe #302 – having regular helper methods to render Hiccdown structures – is the best.

The idea is not without its flaws, but having to qualify a method name by, say, calling it idea_form instead of form is still better than manually having to pass the view context around all the time and not being able to trivially access instance variables.

So I’ll stick with #302 for now, which is the status quo already.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #303.

Hiccdown methods should live in Rails helpers as class methods. That way, the problem described in #302 is solved – methods can be referenced unambiguously:

ProductsHelper.index
StoresHelper.index
#303 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

#327 applies here, too: no access to instance variables inside helper class methods.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #315.

I don’t think that’s something people would do a lot, but they still easily could: ProductsRenderer.index(self)

#315 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Not as of #330, they couldn’t.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #325.
Hiccdown methods should live in their own, separate modules.classes. How about they are called ‘displays’?↵
↵
```ruby↵
module‘displays’?↵
↵
```ruby↵
class ProductsDisplay
  def self.indexindex vc, # …
    vc.some_helper_method
  end↵
end↵
```↵
↵
A benefit of this approach is that, when people start a new Rails app, they may end up putting whatever they’d otherwise put in a helper in a display, since displays haveend↵
end↵
```↵
↵
Behind the scenes, the Hiccdown gem would need to make the benefit of having unambiguously resolvable method names.instance variables available to the display class:↵
↵
```ruby↵
display = @display_module.new↵
↵
view_context.instance_variables.each do |iv|↵
  display.instance_variable_set(↵
    iv,↵
    view_context.instance_variable_get(iv)↵
  )↵
end↵
```↵
↵
Then:↵
↵
```ruby↵
class ProductsDisplay↵
  def index vc, # …↵
    vc.some_helper_method(@products)↵
  end↵
end↵
```
3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #328.

They are: vc.instance_variable_get(:@foo)

#328 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

That’s way too verbose.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #327.

Instance variables are not available inside the methods.

#327 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

They are: vc.instance_variable_get(:@foo)

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #325.

Hiccdown methods should live in their own, separate modules. How about they are called ‘displays’?

module ProductsDisplay
  def self.index vc, # …
    vc.some_helper_method
  end
end

A benefit of this approach is that, when people start a new Rails app, they may end up putting whatever they’d otherwise put in a helper in a display, since displays have the benefit of having unambiguously resolvable method names.

#325 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

Instance variables are not available inside the methods.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #325.

Hiccdown methods should live in their own, separate modules. How about they are called ‘displays’?

module ProductsDisplay
  def self.index vc, # …
    vc.some_helper_method
  end
end

A benefit of this approach is that, when people start a new Rails app, they may end up putting whatever they’d otherwise put in a helper in a display, since displays have the benefit of having unambiguously resolvable method names.

#325 · Dennis Hackethal, 3 months ago

I’m trying this now. Having to prepend every invocation of a helper method with vc. is getting really old really fast.

3 months ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’