Commit 89f29395 authored by Lin Jen-Shin's avatar Lin Jen-Shin

Reword Instance variables in views

parent 07d3d447
......@@ -216,13 +216,9 @@ other random objects, so they're still somewhat isolated.
### Instance variables in views
They're terrible, because they're also shared between different controllers,
and it's very hard to track where those instance variables were set when we
saw somewhere is using it, neither do we know where those were used when we
saw somewhere is setting up them. We hit into a number of 500 errors when we
tried to remove some instance variables in the controller in the past.
Somewhere, some partials might be using it, and we don't know.
They're bad because we can't easily tell who's using the instance variables
(from controller's point of view) and where we set them up (from partials'
point of view), making it extremely hard to track data dependency.
We're trying to use something like this instead:
......@@ -238,5 +234,6 @@ And in the partial:
- project = local_assigns.fetch(:project)
```
This way it's clearer where those values were coming from. In the future,
This way it's clearer where those values were coming from, and we gain the
benefit to have typo check over using instance variables. In the future,
we should also forbid the use of instance variables in partials.
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