What methods go in the model vs. the controller?

Austin_Govella · November 14, 2006, 6:59pm

I suspect my brain is staring to reform itself to Rails thinking, but I need help with a concept:

On p. 150 of the Agile Web Dev book, we put a method in the Orders model: add_lineitems_to_cart.

Why did this go in the Orders model instead of the Store controller (where we were just saving the cart to the database)?

Thanks,

Tim_Case · November 14, 2006, 7:32pm

Hi Austin,

Check out this article by Jamis Buck, I think he explains it well why it's better to have models pulling as much of their weight as they can.

Tim Case

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