Ruby Language
A model-free wizard
Posted by Michael on May 13, 2008 in Programming, Ruby Language
Maybe I’m taking the whole MVC thing too far, but I’ve been reading and learning both Ruby and Rails at a fairly fast clip and just when I thought I was getting the hang of what goes in models, views, and controllers respectively, along comes The Advanced Recipe for Rails book with a recipe for [...]
Handling Date Entries
Posted by Michael on May 10, 2008 in Programming, Ruby Language
Separate inputs for a single Date Entry? pop-up Calendars? Enforce one way (i.e. enter in “mm/dd/yyyy” format)? What happened to the end-user perspective?
User input parsing and validation is classic computer science and usability fodder, yet we seem to get ever more clever at making it more cumbersome to enter a date than [...]
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