As the size of our Ruby on Rails applications grow, so does the complexity. We’ll cover some common mistakes encountered in Rails and how to avoid them. Antipatterns are what people use whenever best practices are ignored. Learn how to identify when you’re using them and improve your Ruby code.
Ruby is one of the best object-oriented languages around. Ubiquitous objects, duck-typing, mixins, expressive syntax with low ceremony, powerful reflection and metaprogramming. But Ruby has a mixed heritage that incorporates functional and procedural models along with OOP. This flexibility provides many options for how to solve problems, but it can …
Ever since I have learned the Ruby language, I thought I can use it to program virtually anything. Well, I was wrong and I’d like to share this sad story with all of you.
Ruby on Rails gives us M, V, C, routes and helpers. Some people add observers and concerns, among others. We’ve standardized on presenters. Service objects are gaining popularity. Uncle Bob wants you to add interactors, request models, response models and entities.
In object-oriented programming, there is a well-known anti-pattern called ‘Fear of Adding Classes’. It describes the fear of solving a problem by adding another class because of the (often wrongfully) perceived added complexity. With systems moving towards a distributed nature through the usage of external services, a similar pattern can …
Ruby is an industrial programming language. In the past eight years, tens of millions of dollars, if not more, have been invested in Ruby itself, and in frameworks and libraries for the language. Many times that have been invested in companies that have been built around Ruby.
