Hacking the Mid-End
Advanced Rails UI Techniques
Michael Bleigh
Chris Selmer

Overview
•Defining the “Mid-End”
• Solving Mid-End Problems
• Examples

What is the
Mid-End?

MVC

Back-End
MVC

Front-End
MVC

MVC+I

(I is for Interaction)
MVC+I

Buzzword
BS

But Not Really...

Mid-End
MVC+I

The Mid-End is all
about abstraction.

Front-End
Smart Partials XHTML/CSS
Mid-End
Smart Helpers App Structure
Back-End