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...displaying data from my model in an HTML table. The view template got really messy so I decided to build a class to tidy things up and help me with the table generation. I started out putting it in the controller. But then I thought that the right place for it (following the MVC pattern and Rails orthodoxy) would be in a view helper. But it seems helpers doesn''t define classes but rather methods that are mixed into to the view class. I stuck some classes in the helper module and managed to instantiate objects from those classes in my view but calling built in helper methods (like link_to) f...

...efined their own assembly syntax which departs from decades old platform assembly syntax - and how the assembler is called by the compiler is basically an implementation detail, not a conceptual choice. The random multi-process unidirectional assembler choice of the past should not be treated as orthodoxy. Thanks, Ingo

...ine < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :subscriptions, :dependent => :delete_all has_many :readers, :through => :subscriptions end class Subscription < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :reader belongs_to :magazine validates_presence_of :reader, :magazine end Now, the nascent RESTful orthodoxy appears to be that for each of these model classes there ought to be a controller that manages its CRUD operations. I admit that this has a nice ring to it, alas, it doesn''t seem to mesh with what I''d like to do user interface-wise. Simply put, I want to edit and update a read...

I have recently started a new job at an NHS hospital in Scotland. Since I took up this post 6 months ago I have had an ongoing dispute with the IT secutiry dept. who refuse to install R on my computer. I previously worked in another branch of the NHS where R was widely used and yet there is nothing I can say which will persuade the IT dept here to even visit the website! With some help from our

I have one module, kibana, that defines a file snippet for the apache module to fulfill (e.g., /etc/https/conf.d/kibana.conf). The apache::params class defines a variable of the path of where this snippet should be placed, $config_d. The snippet uses this variable in its definition. However, it seems that the snippet never resolves the $apache::params::config_d variable, and I''m