Rails - Jul 2005 - Deprecated summary ?

Hi,

Is there a summary detailing "old form expression" deprecated by
"new
form expression" ?

This would be really useful to make sure various legacy idioms [in my
apps ;D] get updated to the "Right Way (tm)"

Nev 




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On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Neville Burnell wrote:
> Is there a summary detailing "old form expression" deprecated by
> "new form expression" ?
>
> This would be really useful to make sure various legacy idioms [in  
> my apps ;D] get updated to the "Right Way ™"
Briefly, prefer methods and symbols over instance variables and strings:
   params[:foo]                over @params["foo"]
   request.request_method      over @request.request_method
   session[:user_id] = user.id over @session["user"] = user
Prefer the new render method to the old render_* methods:
   render :text => ''foobar'' over render_text
"foobar"
And use normal Ruby assertions instead of the old custom assertions:
   assert assigns(:itinerary).valid? over assert_valid_record  
''itinerary''

A poor summary, but it''s a start.
jeremy