Archive - The Abstraction

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December 2022

Adventures in software design with Joel Drapper.

Dec 10, 2022

October 2022

Oct 25, 2022

Using meta-programming to handle method name conflicts in Ruby

Oct 21, 2022

September 2022

Sep 21, 2022

June 2022

A common refactoring in object-oriented programming is to take a complex method or set of methods and extract a new class from them. These classes …

Jun 20, 2022

Jun 18, 2022

March 2022

An object-oriented enum pattern for Ruby and Rails with literal-style definition syntax.

Mar 14, 2022

And why the Sandi Metz quote is so often misapplied.

Mar 11, 2022

Define Rails model scopes and predicates with the same code.

Mar 10, 2022

It’s not always a terrible idea.

Mar 10, 2022

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