RailsBricks 3.2 released with a cool new feature | Railsbricks

RailsBricks 3.2 has been released. It has a new really cool feature: it uses the annotate_models gem to automatically annotate your models and routes. Now, a model file, say post.rb has the following comments at the top:

    # == Schema Information
    #
    # Table name: posts
    #
    #  id           :integer          not null, primary key
    #  title        :string
    #  content_md   :text
    #  content_html :text
    #  draft        :boolean          default(FALSE)
    #  user_id      :integer
    #  slug         :string
    #  created_at   :datetime
    #  updated_at   :datetime

It also annotates your config/routes.rb with the result of rake routes like this:

    # == Route Map
    #
    #                   Prefix Verb   URI Pattern                       Controller#Action
    #                     root GET    /                                 pages#home
    #                     home GET    /home(.:format)                   pages#home
    #                   inside GET    /inside(.:format)                 pages#inside
    #                  contact GET    /contact(.:format)                pages#contact
    #                    posts GET    /posts(.:format)                  pages#posts
    #                     post GET    /posts/:id(.:format)              pages#show_post
    #         new_user_session GET    /users/sign_in(.:format)          devise/sessions#new
    # ...etc

What happens when you add a model, update a model through a migration or add a new route? Well, you can re-generate updated annotations with rbricks -a (or rbricks --annotate if you like to type).

Hope this makes your development experience even more enjoyable 🙂