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A developer notebook on applying classic Object-Oriented principles to Ruby on Rails projects.
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Fowler on Rails
Projects using Ruby on Rails often lack strong distinctions in two main areas: The model/record conflation: Seeing “models” as strictly DB-backed resources. The view/template conflation: failing to draw a line between view objects and HTML templates. The conflations are encouraged … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby
Tagged activerecord, datamapper, Martin Fowler, patterns, Ruby on Rails, templates, two step view
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Demeter: It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.
Is #try really so bad? In response to my recent post about #try being a code smell, a lot of people made the reasonable objection that the example I used—of using #try on a a Hash—was a pathological case. A … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby
Tagged bdd, coupling, demeter, design, law of demeter, objects, oo, oop, ruby, Ruby on Rails, structural coupling, tdd, testing
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Get Two Free Months of Hoptoad with Exceptional Ruby
If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you already know about Hoptoad. For those who don’t know, Hoptoad is a hosted service that does application error logging. You configure your Ruby on Rails, iOS (or other kinds of … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged errors, Exception handling, exceptions, failures, Hoptoad, reporting, Ruby on Rails
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Linkdump #6
agile/db_branch – GitHub I’d been looking for a way to manage databases for multiple branches of an app, and this is one of the (many) suggestions. tags: development database ruby rails git Rails plugin to play nice with git branching … Continue reading
Posted in Links
Tagged c++, c++0x, clojure, data structures, datamapper, javascript, links, memoization, parsing, rails, ruby, Ruby on Rails
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