# Here's some badly designed code

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heres-some-badly-designed-code/134034>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 7, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heres-some-badly-designed-code/134034 "2008-04-07T05:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![kyrre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@kyrre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyrre)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heres-some-badly-designed-code/134034/1 "2008-04-07T05:05:19Z")

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hello!

i am kyrre and i’m a rails newbie. i’m trying to combine altered beast  
with chuckslist to create some sort of online community here in norway  
where i can make friends and maybe even hook up with some lovely ladies.

but i feel that the chuckslist part ain’t as up-to-date and  
well-designed as the altered beast part. it’s not restful for instance,  
and my attempts at making it so were disastrous, so i figured i’d  
consult the community before i make any more mistakes. kinda like the  
saying goes, better digging a new hole instead of digging the same hole  
deeper.

here is everything i’ve got so far: [http://pastie.org/176306](http://pastie.org/176306)

1. how do i make the chuckslist part restful? (how would this affect my  
controllers and models?)
2. how do i perfect my routes? (i take it my routes\_new.rb is a bad  
start)
3. are there any parts of altered beast that can replace parts of  
chuckslist? (like now, the beast handles users and site configuration)
4. is there anything i can join, simplify, or remove? (for instance,  
beast handles all users… and i don’t think i’ll be needing  
chuckslist’s “isAdmin” seeing as how beast already has “admin”)
5. beast uses a lot of xml, what’s with that? could chuckslist benefit  
from that?

thank you all so much!

kyrre nygård

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**Author:** ![kyrre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@kyrre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyrre)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heres-some-badly-designed-code/134034/2 "2008-04-08T10:22:29Z")

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nevermind this shit turned out to be easy as hail 🙂

thanks though