March 2011
2 posts
Aleks Krotoski untangling the web: Interview: Joel... →
untanglingtheweb:
The first time I met Joel Veitch was at a party. I was amazed at the reaction of a close friend who, admittedly, is a connoisseur of all things cat (both real and virtual). Normally unflappable, she was introduced to Veitch and flapped, “You do all the videos of cats on the Internet! I’m a big
3/21/2006 11:48AM
me: i'm getting sms sending out right now
csshsh: oh! yeah?
does it work well so far?
me: yeah, about to deploy it. soon. have to figure out a better way to abstract it. for now, it's in the user model.
csshsh: okay..
i will take a look at it, in a bit.. maybe i have some ideas..
okay.. quick ideas..
i would put the sms class in app/models
it's part of the domain model..
me: a new sms model?
csshsh: na. i would move the one that currently is in lib into app/models
me: really?
hrm
csshsh: and as far as testing goes, i would just stub out the send method
yep.. it really is part of the domain model of twttr
some people think that only objects that inherit from ActiveRecord: :Base should go there. but thats not true..
an sms is as much part of the domain model as user, status, etc
me: hrm. yeah, that class really needs to be worked on. i guess we should put the sms char limits in there as well.
csshsh: ah. yeah. true..
it's gonna be so nice to try out the sms implementation =)
me: yeah!
it's working now.
following
csshsh: nice!!
