Call for help: Rails Reserved Words Wiki

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At Colin’s suggestion, I have started a Wiki page with an old list of
reserved words, and I’d appreciate any additions to it. If I get a
moment, I’ll put a simple app up on Heroku with the words in it so we
can search and sort and whatnot. I can’t believe this hasn’t been kept
up, since the number of magic words in the framework has surely grown
since Cheat Sheets was current.

Thanks,

Walter

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There is now an app on Heroku for this. Please chip in and add any words
you know are “trouble”.

http://reservedwords.herokuapp.com

Thanks,

Walter

3

Not sure if worth adding, but I hit some weeks ago a nice issue when
translating a site that contained “NO” translations in YAML, like
this:

https://gist.github.com/1707858

“NO” meant as in “Norway”. I18n.t(‘country.NO’) was returning
“translation missing: en.country.NO”.

So, “YES” and “NO” are reserved words at this level. The fix was to
add quotes like this:

country:
“NO”: “Norway”

Best regards,
Rafael Fernndez Lpez.

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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Walter Lee D. [email protected]
wrote:

There is now an app on Heroku for this. Please chip in and add any words
you know are “trouble”.

http://reservedwords.herokuapp.com

Thanks.

  1. A bug report … when clicking on the detail (show view)
    of 1 word, the authentication is also required. Should
    only be required on new/create and edit/update
    (but not on show).

  2. what about capitalization?

I added “true” because only “TRUE” was in the list. But
I see from the URL’s that “TRUE” is mapped to “true”
and the new “true” I added to “true-2”.

Making the separate entries case sensitive may be a
better approach (in a case sensitive design, “TRUE”
and “true” are very different strings).

HTH,

Peter

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On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Peter V. wrote:

only be required on new/create and edit/update
(but not on show).

Thanks, that’s a good call. Done.

  1. what about capitalization?

I added “true” because only “TRUE” was in the list. But
I see from the URL’s that “TRUE” is mapped to “true”
and the new “true” I added to “true-2”.

The URLs are from FriendlyID, and the mapping of all slugs to lower-case
and suffixing with numbers is its doing. I could just use numbers like
any good Rails CRUD site would, that would make it fair.

Making the separate entries case sensitive may be a
better approach (in a case sensitive design, “TRUE”
and “true” are very different strings).

I didn’t want to dig too deep into FriendlyID to fix this, if you have a
patch that will do it, I’ll gladly add it.

Thanks,

Walter