Logical organization of controllers

Rails
1

I find that many of my controllers have a dozen or more methods and that
it
can take a few moments to orient myself when I open a controller I
haven’t
looked at in a while. Does anyone have suggestions for organizing
methods
in a controller (alphabetical, by function, etc) to increase readability
and
scanability?

2

If you’re using RadRails, the default Rails perspective displays a list
of methods in a pane beside your code. Click one, and the editor jumps
to it.

I know, not what you meant. But it does help.

Eden B. wrote:

I find that many of my controllers have a dozen or more methods and that
it
can take a few moments to orient myself when I open a controller I
haven’t
looked at in a while. Does anyone have suggestions for organizing
methods
in a controller (alphabetical, by function, etc) to increase readability
and
scanability?

3

Steve K. wrote:

If you’re using RadRails, the default Rails perspective displays a list
of methods in a pane beside your code. Click one, and the editor jumps
to it.

I know, not what you meant. But it does help.

Eden B. wrote:

I find that many of my controllers have a dozen or more methods and that
it
can take a few moments to orient myself when I open a controller I
haven’t
looked at in a while. Does anyone have suggestions for organizing
methods
in a controller (alphabetical, by function, etc) to increase readability
and
scanability?

I keep my actions alphabetized in my controllers, it makes them easy to
find.