I always read about Rails having "too much magic" but people don't give specific examples. Are there any blog posts I can read?
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@sgrif DARN, I thought the right answer was something like don't use `accepts_nested_attributes_for`
@metaskills No, the answer was dependent on whether either record involved is a new record
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@metaskills And at least 2 of them are in places you wouldn't think to grep. That's where it gets to be *too* magic. 4/4 -
@sgrif Good example. Autosave would have to be on for the user association I "think". Or... you had to use ANAF :) - 12 more replies
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@metaskills Which is the point where it gets to "this is too magic".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@metaskills In the example I gave (`http://post.user.name ="changed"; post.save` did the users's name change?) 1/?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@metaskills If you wanted to *actually document all of the things that could change the answer to that question 2/?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@metaskills It would be a 4 dimensional matrix. And none of those axis involve changing the code in the example either. 3/?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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