For organizing Rails projects, domain objects are good and service objects are bad

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For organizing Rails projects, domain objects are good and service objects are bad

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For organizing Rails projects, domain objects are good and service objects are bad

Service objects throw out the fundamental advantages of object-oriented programming.

Rails

How to Stay Up to Date With Your Rails Application - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

An outdated Rails application doesn't happen overnight. In this article I share some things that you could start doing to avoid falling out of date.

Behind-the-scenes of ‘Concern’ in Rails

One of the best features of the Ruby programming language is the mixin. It’s a module in Ruby that you can add, or mix into any other class when you want to extend it with new methods.

Ruby

Getting Started with the Sorbet Type Checker

In this blog series, we’ll detail our experiences with adding Sorbet to a large-ish (> 100k LoC) Rails codebase. In this first post, we’ll add sorbet to the project, and add types to our first file.

What's new in IRB with Ruby 2.7

Many useful features like syntax highlighting, multiline editing, display documents, enable auto indent, enable save and load history by default are introduced in IRB with Ruby 2.7.

Beyond Ruby

Against TDD

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a tool. To get value from a tool, it’s necessary to choose the right tool for the job and use the tool properly.

Don’t throw away invalid data

End users attempt to use the software in legitimate but unforeseen ways. The system then rejects their inputs and throws away their data. Finding the software to be an obstruction to work, they then route around it. If we are very lucky, they also complain to us, the developers.

Testing in Production: the hard parts

This post isn’t so much of an argument as to why one should be testing in production than an honest analysis of the challenges inherent in conducting these forms of tests.

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