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@Jankeesvw Nope, did it the manual way. For each controller I grepped through the codebase and manually made the edits. With some vim find-and-replace magic of course. But more manual than I would have liked.
I did consider automating it in some way, but we have a bunch of different ways in our HAML views (and elsewhere) to define our targets so I couldn’t come up with a good approach.
There’s also some optional, but recommended functional changes you can make. Such as using value change callbacks to do some of your heavy lifting. I did those in the same go. Next time I’d probably break it up into smaller, shippable iterations.
I also upgraded my project, did 90% with a regular expression. But I only updated to the new target syntax.
@marc this is what I used, you still need some changes. But it gets you quite far.
data-target="((.+?)\.(.+?))"
data-$2-target="$3"
A blog post sounds good, but this regular expression is not perfect some cases are not well replaced. So I'm not that happy with it.


