I'm working on a Rails project right now. It's been a while, since I've been doing most Ruby work with Sinatra lately.

Millions of posts have talked about DRYing up controllers. I'm not talking about the skinny controller/fat model concept, necessarily, although that should be addressed as well. What I'm refering to is the constant repetition in all controllers. A create action, for example, always has essentially the same code.

I'm not writing this post to claim that I've solved the problem in some unique, world changing way. I'm really just writing to acknowledge that I see it and have decided to deal with it. Repetition bugs me. Repeatedly spec'ing the same controller code bugs me.

The bottom line: I'm writing a module that can be included in my controllers that will remove the need to constantly add index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy and the code that goes along with them. I will test it well. I will override in the controllers to handle special circumstances. My simple controllers should NOT need to be more that 50 lines long (if that).

I guess this is actually a New Year's resolution. So there!