[Rails-core] Feature feedback before working and pull request please..

2012-09-07 Thread Kensodev
Hey, For a while now, I am thinking about implementing a feature into Rails. Since it's not a simple single liner, I thought I should get feedback on it and maybe some guidelines before I continue on with coding it. The feature I would like to implement is nil_object pattern. Here's some code f

Re: [Rails-core] Re: Feature feedback before working and pull request please..

2012-09-08 Thread Kensodev
This kind of response is precisely why I came here first and didn't just invest the time and opened a pull request. IMHO this should be supported in the frame work, and I will be more then happy to work on it if you guys think it should go in. I know Ruby can be used to override the relation. I

Re: [Rails-core] Re: Feature feedback before working and pull request please..

2012-09-09 Thread Kensodev
e MVC separation. > I do a lot of the following: > if some_model.user > ... > end > to check the presence of the association. Your proposition will break this > idiom which is IMHO heavily used in code. > > Regards, > > Pascal > > > Le 08.09.12 20:57,

Re: [Rails-core] Re: Feature feedback before working and pull request please..

2012-09-11 Thread Kensodev
Thank you all for the feedback. Like Rafael and Aaron said, they think it does not belong in rails. Although I disagree, I appreciate the feedback and definitely happy I took the time to ask for it here before opening a pull and taking more attention from the core team for something that was not