Dennis Hackethal

Member since June 2024

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  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #351.

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

About 1 year 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.
About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

such like

‘just like’

About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #339.

Should I give the icons in the activity feed colors?

#339 · Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Done as of 8269806.

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Done as of 7e7c6cd.

About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #338.
Should probably show the explanation in a revision, when given. In the activity feed, that is.
About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #342.

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#342 · Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Done as of 146e967.

About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #342.

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About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #331.

Not as of #330, they couldn’t.

#331 · Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

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

About 1 year 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.

About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #339.

Should I give the icons in the activity feed colors?

About 1 year ago · ‘Veritula – Meta’
  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #338.

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

About 1 year 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’.

About 1 year ago
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #334 and unmarked it as a criticism.

Accidentally marked as a criticism

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year 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.

About 1 year 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.

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

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

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Not as of #330, they couldn’t.

About 1 year 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↵
```
About 1 year ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #328.

They are: vc.instance_variable_get(:@foo)

#328 · Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

That’s way too verbose.

About 1 year ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #327.

Instance variables are not available inside the methods.

#327 · Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

They are: vc.instance_variable_get(:@foo)

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Instance variables are not available inside the methods.

About 1 year 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 HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

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

About 1 year ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #316.
Hiccdown methods should live in their own, separate modules. How about they are called ‘renderers’?↵
↵
```ruby↵
module ProductsRenderer↵
‘displays’?↵
↵
```ruby↵
module ProductsDisplay↵
  def self.index vc, # …
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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,display, since renderersdisplays have the benefit of having unambiguously resolvable method names.
About 1 year ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #322.
Tested, it works. `self` does indeed point to the `view_context` in the helper. Verified by printing `object_id`s.
About 1 year ago · ‘Hiccdown Development Notes’