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Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object

I knocked out a pretty decent refactoring of some of the internals of Factory...
Josh Clayton
November 1, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
Separate your filters

Separate the things which are not searching from the things which are indeed actually searching.
Mike Burns
October 6, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Getting Sequential: A look into a Factory Bot Anti-pattern

I’ve noticed a handful of what I’d consider Factory Bot anti-patterns, either...
Josh Clayton
October 3, 2011
- Web
- Open Source
- Testing
- Rails
- Good Code
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Unobtrusive Ruby

Thoughts on ruby that lets you work.
Mike Burns
September 12, 2011
- Web
- Good Code
- Ruby
A Paperclip Refactoring Tale: Part One: Dependency Injection

High level walk through of a paperclip feature refactor.
Mike Burns
September 6, 2011
- Web
- Paperclip
- Ruby
- Good Code
ActiveRecord, Caching, and the Single Responsibility Principle

I was working on a messaging system earlier this week and noticed a pretty...
Josh Clayton
August 19, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You

Every developer runs into the dreaded nil object error: NoMethodError in...
Joe Ferris
July 28, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Switching on an Attribute of Another Object

It is a bad idea to do a switch based on an attribute of another object. If...
July 8, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
The Common Threads through AntiPatterns

For a few years, I’ve been developing content and giving talks on the theme...
Chad Pytel
May 24, 2011
- News
- Web
- Good Code
Let it REST

You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...
Harold Giménez
December 22, 2010
- Web
- Good Code
- Rails
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