Blow Up Your Views

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" summary

Claims that Rails view templates are broken by instance variables and coupling and that replacing helpers with object decorators reduces complexity and coupling, demonstrated by a working gem Draper and adoption notes from Hashrocket and Podio. Shows a surprising internal view context of 51,000 characters and an observed ~8,000 objects per request, advocates using decent_exposure to expose methods instead of ivars and client rendering with handlebars to push formatting to the browser and shrink server work.

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" chapters (12)

1. 0:00The state of views
2. 2:35Data coupling issues
3. 5:15Responsibilities of MVC
4. 7:28Using decent exposure
5. 10:48The problem with helpers
6. 15:42Introduction to decorators
7. 20:11The Draper gem
8. 20:46Views as API customers
9. 22:37Client-side rendering
10. 25:28Automatic flushing
11. 28:19Summary and Q&A
12. 32:41Live code demonstration

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