Just started soldering the custom boards we received last week. Such tiny holes!

Peter is currently compiling parts for a custom CNC’d circuit board for the laser harp project

We’ve updated pathable.com with a brand new look!

Complex forms, mass assignment, and the “presenter”

I’m fed up with doing a bunch of complex model aggregation in my controllers. They are too bloated. Here’s a set of links I’m trying to make sense of as I decide what to do: http://validatable.rubyforge.org/ http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/134685 http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/02/ruby-forwardable-addition.html http://www.brynary.com/2007/4/8/fluent-interface-for-ruby-delegation http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/11/moving-associated-creations-to-the-model http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/thread/3c61e00916c365e5?pli=1 http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-models Seems like if you can avoid building an extra Presenter model and keep everything in your Rails models you’re better off, though the situation if complex enough, may dictate breaking such stuff out. Handy in either scenario is Jay Fields validatable plugin for giving you better control over validations on collections of model objects. The mass assignment stuff [...]