Archive - The Abstraction

Sep 21

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

Jun 18

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

Mar 14

And why the Sandi Metz quote is so often misapplied.

Mar 11

Define Rails model scopes and predicates with the same code.

Mar 10

It’s not always a terrible idea.

Mar 10

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