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How to Extract an Intention-Revealing Name Using Vim

This method has a magic number: def wait_time @env[QUEUE_WAIT_HEADER].to_i...
Joe Ferris
May 2, 2012
- Good Code
- Vim
What is good code?

What are the fundamentals of good code?
Joe Ferris
April 25, 2012
- Playbook
- Good Code
Decorators Compared To Strategies, Composites, and Presenters

We’ve been paying closer attention lately to how we use design patterns in...
Dan Croak
April 12, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
- Ruby
Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object

You probably don’t write code like this: if object.kind_of?(User) do_this...
Dan Croak
April 11, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Watch for Turbulence

Give low complexity to your high-churn code.
Mike Burns
February 24, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
Derive #inject for a better understanding

Let’s talk about Enumerable#inject. It’s special to me. In other cultures...
Mike Burns
February 17, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Inject that Rails Configuration Dependency!

Setting up configuration settings in a Rails app has been fairly...
Josh Clayton
January 25, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Good Code
Evaluating Alternative Decorator Implementations In Ruby

Thinking about decorations.
Dan Croak
December 26, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Tidy Views and Beyond with Decorators

The problem Here’s a view serving monkeys#show. What’s wrong...
Harold Giménez
December 2, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Rails
- Good Code
The One-Method Silent Killer in Your Cucumber Suite

A regular expression bug in selector_for.
Jason Morrison
November 3, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Good Code
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