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aka. “Some things I learned when trying to build my program up toward a DRY domain-specific language”

Short version: Very very dense talk, but great stuff. I think I’ll grok it at a later date.

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“http://www.writertopia.com/”:http://www.writertopia.com/
“http://www.writertopia.com/developers”:http://www.writertopia.com/developers
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h3. Bottom-up Design

“It’s OK to look like a fool.” - Paul Graham from yesterday. That was on a slide - AGILE!

h3. “What I wanted”

His goal was to have a DSL inside of rails that allowed him to do thigs like
@current_user.has_role? “moderator”@, etc.

h3. Our Tour

* Authorization DSL
* Objects classes and singletons
* Authorization Plugin
* Identity Plugin


def secret_info
permit "(matz or dhh) and interested in Answers" do
render :text => "Then Answer of Life = 42"
end
end


h4. How do we “permit”

insert class method “permit”. Needs to filter all instance methods, before_filter is similiar (so it’s a clue)
insert instance method “permit”

In the init.rb - send include into actioncontrolelr::base_send and actionview::base.send
(I need to get these slides, they are DENSE. They will be online.)

h4. How do we do this?

Insert class method which insert required methods

init.rb:

ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include,
Authroizeation:ObjectRolesTable::UserExtensions,
Authorization::ObjectRolesTable::ModelExteions
)


Then for authorizable, it’s kind of the same thing.

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