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Dennis HackethalOP·#316·2y

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

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module ProductsRenderer
  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 renderer, since renderers have the benefit of having unambiguously resolvable method names.

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Dennis HackethalOP·#319·2y·Criticism

I don’t like the term ‘renderer’ yet. It’s too loaded with meaning, what with Rails already having a render method in controllers and another render method in views…

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Dennis HackethalOP·#320·2y

Maybe ‘Display’. ProductsDisplay

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