Just a quick one. Say you have a route like the following:
map.resources :users
And you’re using email addresses to look up users like:
/users/jim@somewhere.com
You’re going to run into an error along the lines of:
Missing template users/show.com.erb in view path blah/app/views
Which obviously isn’t what you want. To fix this, change your route to the following:
map.resources :users, :requirements => [...]

RubyFu is a project I’ve been working on, along with Phil Jeffs, for a couple of weeks now. We’ve got big plans so keep your eyes peeled.
What is RubyFu?
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Over the last few months I’ve realised that the speed at which I develop new projects is a lot quicker than it used to be. So I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve learned and also some quite obvious things (to me at least).
Use a Base Application
I’m obviously going to be horrifically biased [...]