[ANN] History plugin

Rails
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Hello,

I felt annoyed enough when having to redirect user back to their
previous location in a hackish way that I wrote this plugin.

It avoids storing POST and Ajax request. It also has a facility to
specify actions not to store in the history.

If you are interested, it’s there:
http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history

See you all,

Damien

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Damien MERENNE [email protected]
http://blog.cosinux.org/

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'til.”
After you ask, “Two seconds 'til what?” he roundhouse kicks you in the
face.

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On Jun 1, 2006, at 12:33, Damien MERENNE wrote:

http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history
Cool!

Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming
idioms. I blogged about it here:

Advogato: Blog for fxn

– fxn

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Xavier N. wrote:

Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming
idioms. I blogged about it here:

Advogato: Blog for fxn

Thank you very much! I did not thought it could serve as tutorial.
Great article.

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Damien MERENNE [email protected]
http://blog.cosinux.org/

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trademarked names for his left and right legs.

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On 02/06/2006, at 5:20 PM, Damien MERENNE wrote:

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Xavier N. wrote:

Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming
idioms. I blogged about it here:

Advogato: Blog for fxn

Thank you very much! I did not thought it could serve as tutorial.
Great article.

Quick point, as Xavier’s diary doesn’t support comments.

Module#append_features is deprecated. Module#included is the new kid
on the block, and no need to call super!

def self.included(base)
base.extend(ClassMethods)
end

– tim lucas

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On 1-jun-2006, at 12:33, Damien MERENNE wrote:

http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history
Damien, I have implemented a similar plugin a while ago, it’s called
Track. Maybe we could just fuse them into one?

http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/track/

Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov
please send all personal mail to
me at julik.nl

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On Jun 2, 2006, at 13:05, Tim L. wrote:

Quick point, as Xavier’s diary doesn’t support comments.

Module#append_features is deprecated. Module#included is the new
kid on the block, and no need to call super!

def self.included(base)
base.extend(ClassMethods)
end

Thank you!

Is there a reason to call class_eval inside history()?

def history(options)
logger.debug(“history: setting up history”)
include History::InstanceMethods
class_eval do
ActionController::Base.history_container =
History::Container.new(options)
after_filter :store_location
end
end

Wouldn’t that code work without class_eval? (See mock-up below, where
croak is after_filter, and tryme is history)

– fxn

class Base
def self.croak
puts “croak! in #{self}”
end
end

module M1
def self.included(base)
base.extend(M2)
end

module M2
def tryme
croak
end
end
end

class Base
include M1
end

Base.tryme # -> croak! in Base