this might be a stupid question, but is there like a naming convention
for base models? Lets say you develop an application where custom work
is possible. So you create a core for your application.
But for the custom development, you don’t want to touch your core code,
you want to override / extend it.
How do you achieve this? Is it like possible to name your models /
controllers in a certain way? And how do you override / extend your base
code?
I was thing in a way like:
UsersBase < ActiveRecord::Base => (base model for users)
-> Users < UsersBase => custom stuff (like extra fields)
This could work right? But what in the case that their isn’t any custom
work? Then I would still need to create those empty models /
controllers, becouse otherwise I would have diffrent url’s.
Also, I was thinking to convert my base code into plugins. But is still
something I have to research on how to do that, and how to extend /
override the plugin code.
So I whas hoping someone could give me some good advice here.
Thank you in advance.
this might be a stupid question, but is there like a naming convention
for base models? Lets say you develop an application where custom work
is possible. So you create a core for your application.
But for the custom development, you don’t want to touch your core code,
you want to override / extend it.
How do you achieve this? Is it like possible to name your models /
controllers in a certain way? And how do you override / extend your base
code?
I was thing in a way like:
UsersBase < ActiveRecord::Base => (base model for users)
→ Users < UsersBase => custom stuff (like extra fields)
Yes. But it might be better to use namespaces (User::Base and so on).
Also remember that Rails model names should be singular.
You might want to investigate the use of abstract_class.
But what in the case that their isn’t any custom
work? Then I would still need to create those empty models /
controllers, becouse otherwise I would have diffrent url’s.
Wrong. You could use routing to take care of that.
Also, I was thinking to convert my base code into plugins. But is still
something I have to research on how to do that, and how to extend /
override the plugin code.
So I whas hoping someone could give me some good advice here.
Thank you in advance.
