If you’re working with Ruby on Rails and are looking for ways to improve your existing code base, I would encourage you all to read the following blog posts.
- [Skinny Controller, Fat
Model](http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat-model),
Jamis Buck
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- [Find methods in
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controllers](http://blog.imperialdune.com/2007/4/19/find-methods-in-controllers),
by Graeme Nelson
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- [RailsConf Recap: Skinny
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Controllers](http://www.therailsway.com/2007/6/1/railsconf-recap-skinny-controllers),
The Rails Way
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- [Rspec notes from the trenches
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2](http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/6/19/rspec-notes-from-the-trenches-2),
by Courtenay
Hopefully… you’ve already read each of them and as a result… put your controllers on a diet.
