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Is there any way to hook the "controller" generator so it runs "rspec_controller"?

- by ryeguy

I want to make it so I can just type script/generate controller and it will run script/generate rspec_controller. How can I do this?

Why does coffeescript generate classes like this?

Given the following coffeescript code: class Animal constructor: (@name) -> speak: (things) -> "My name is #{@name} and I like #{things}" This is generated: var Animal = (function() { function Animal(name) { this.name = name; } Animal.prototype.speak = function(things) { return "My name is " + this.name + " and I like " + things; }; return Animal; })(); But why isn't this more idiomatic code generated? var Animal = function Animal(name) { this.name = name; }; Animal.prototype.speak = function(things) { return "My name is " + this.name + " and I like " + things; }; I know that coffeescript wraps a lot of stuff in anonymous functions to control scope leak, but what could leak here?

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Is it possible for a parent to use a child's constant or static variables from inside a static metho

- by ryeguy

Below is an example of what I'm trying to do. The parent can't access any of the child's variables. It doesn't matter what technique I use (static or constants), I just need some kind of functionality like this. class ParentClass { public static function staticFunc() { //both of these will throw a (static|const) not defined error echo self::$myStatic; echo self::MY_CONSTANT; } } class ChildClass extends ParentClass { const MY_CONSTANT = 1; public static $myStatic = 2; } ChildClass::staticFunc();

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Is there any reason I shouldn't do database calls from the destructor?

- by ryeguy

I want to create a sort of datamapper library, where you'd do something like this: $users = Users::getTable(); $users->add($newUser1); $users->add($newUser2); Now $users contains 2 user records, but they aren't yet persisted to the database. To be efficient, I'd like to flush them all at once. I would like to have a flush() method to do this (not an issue), but I'd also like for it to happen implicitly when the $users table reference falls out of scope. Is there any reason I shouldn't do this in the destructor?

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