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Jacob Brantley
124 Pointsbefore_action :set_post performance
Does the before_action :set_post approach save anything in terms of performance, or is it strictly to provide cleaner code?
2 Answers
Jay McGavren
Treehouse TeacherI haven't benchmarked anything (I doubt anyone outside the Rails core team has), but I'm guessing that before_action calls actually impose a very (very) small performance penalty by requiring a couple extra method calls. So yes, the main goal is cleaner code.
Jacob Brantley
124 PointsAwesome, thank you!