Let spik with Rails!

You can use this gem for making beautiful thin and elegant speaking with humans controllers. Just imagine if your action instead of this:

def index
  @posts = Post.all(
    :conditions => {:something => params[:something]},
    :order => 'id desc',
    :limit => 20 ).
      map{ |it| it.name.uppercase + '#' + it.short_description }.
      uniq
end

Might look like this:

def index
  find some posts with something like params[:something]
end

Of course you should create scope in your model for that. And of course I know that with this scope you can write your controller's action like this:

def index
  @posts = Post.some params[:something]
end

Yeah! It's short, and readable from some side. But! You free to screw it up with additional excess logic here! You can add some filters maybe. Maybe you will create another one variable. Maybe use here some methods or somethig. THINK ABOUT THIN AND ELEGANT CONTROLLERS! Logic should be in models and presenters! SHOULD BE!

So my gem do an unnatural borders for you. You can create cool controllers with only 2-3 lines of each action. With my gem you SHOULD organize your logic into model methods/scopes and into presenters. Try it!

Usage in project

If you want to get all your posts, you just include Spik module in controller and write 'find all posts':

app/controllers/home_controller.rb

class HomeController < ApplicationController
  include Spik

  def index
    find first post
    find all posts
  end

  def search
    find all posts with title params[:post_title]
  end
end

After that you can work with variables @post and @posts:

app/views/home/index.html.erb

<h1>Hello Spik!</h1>
<%- if @posts %>
  <%= @posts.size %>
<%- end %>
<%- if @post %>
  <%= @post.title %>
<%- end %>

Installation

Puts this line into Gemfile then run $ bundle:

gem 'spik', '0.0.3'

Or if you are old-school Rails 2 developer put this into config/environment.rb and run $ rake gems:install:

config.gem 'spik', :version => '0.0.3'

Or manually install spik gem: $ gem install spik

Contributors

• @gazay