bounce

bounce will save and return an active record object. This results in a nice refactor of update and create actions in your controllers when used withrespond_with.

Refactor this:

  def create
    article = Article.new(params[:article])
    if article.save
      redirect_to article
    else
      render :new
    end
  end

  def update
    article = Article.find(params[:id])
    if article.update_attributes(params[:article])
      redirect_to article
    else
      render :edit
    end
  end

Into this:

  respond_to :html

  def create
    article = Article.new(params[:article])
    respond_with article.bounce
  end

  def update
    article = Article.find(params[:id])
    respond_with article.bounce(params[:article])
  end

If you have more than one controller, extract the respond_to :html into the application controller.

If you use decent_exposure you can do this:

  expose(:article)

  def create
    respond_with article.bounce
  end
  alias update create

Install

Add to your Gemfile in Rails:

gem 'bounce'