chantastic

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

denispeplin

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24030907/spork-0-9-2-and-rspec-3-0-0-uninitialized-constant-rspeccorecommandline-n/24085168#24085168
# https://github.com/manafire/spork/commit/38c79dcedb246daacbadb9f18d09f50cc837de51#diff-937afaa19ccfee172d722a05112a7c6fL6

 class Spork::TestFramework::RSpec
   def run_tests(argv, stderr, stdout)
     if rspec1?
       ::Spec::Runner::CommandLine.run(
         ::Spec::Runner::OptionParser.parse(argv, stderr, stdout)
       )
    elsif rspec3?

rsese

require 'roo'

# Spreadsheet courtesy of the A List Apart 2010 Web Design Survey:
# http://www.alistapart.com/articles/survey2010

workbook = Excel.new('a-list-apart-web-design-survey-sample.xls')

# Set the worksheet you want to work with as the default worksheet.  You could
# also iterate over all the worksheets in the workbook.
workbook.default_sheet = workbook.sheets[0]

dfl

# mysql db backup and restore for rails
# by David Lowenfels <[email protected]>  4/2011

require 'yaml'

namespace :db do
  def backup_prep
    @directory = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'db', 'backup')
    @db = YAML::load( File.open( File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config', 'database.yml') ) )[ RAILS_ENV ]
    @db_params = "-u #{@db['username']} #{@db['database']}"