Hi, during today meeting with Karel (external rails consultant) we do some public code review of my code and we also find some general problems. I try summarize it in this mail. Please ask if you don't understand something. I start with rest-service: We should have some general method in ancestor (e.g. YastApplicationController) of all webyast plugins which do something (so no permissions or resources) some general method permission checker with same behavior (like response permission denied). We in general should eliminate things which is repeating in each plugin. Have one line view is useless and better is use respond_to. webclient: My class LogException is useles if we disable backtrace silencing so logger.info e is enought (btw it looks like our webclient is not generated by rails 2.3, as few files missing, it looks like we generated it by 2.2) http://afreshcup.com/2008/11/29/rails-23-backtrace-silencing/ load_proxy method is good idea how to reduce needed lines of code but should not redirect or set any infos. Instead use throwing exceptions and use rescue_from to display correct page. This also discover why sometime our universal exception handler doesn't work, because some exception is not child of Exception but Error. This also discover how looks our Resource service and it is really unreadable and unmaintainable code, as it is really big, should use e.g. mixins or something else to reduce its size and complexity. Test for this class looks good, so we should try refactor it to better result. We should better structure whole architecture like some part of controller do things in one area which is not close to controller contract, so we should move it to mixin (especially use it in application controller). Karel doesn't like checking for gettext in application controller. some positives from code review - time module is good documented and testing looks good even if designer could recognize it is written after code. Ideas to reduce code size and duplicated code is good, only implementation is not always good. some general knowledge: - testing model is the easiest so move the most of functionality there for easier testing - over-mocking is not good, as it abstract from reality (it is useful when you don't have implemented some functionality) - .railsrc and .irbrc for some general routines available during console session I hope I don't forget much thinks, maybe someone add another knowledge. -- Josef Reidinger YaST team maintainer of perl-Bootloader, YaST2-Repair, webyast modules language and time -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org