Duplicate Code in Your Tests
Sadly, DRY has become a philosophy that is dogmatically and blindly applied to every aspect of programming. I'm a big fan of firing silver bullets but... more »
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Domain Specific Language Simplexity
At QCon London I caught the Domain Specific Language (DSL) tutorial by Martin Fowler, Neal Ford, and Rebecca Parsons. While Martin covered how and why... more »
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Creating Anonymous Classes
Classes in Ruby are first-class objects—each is an instance of class Class.
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Ruby: Dynamically Define Method
You have methods that can be defined more concisely if defined dynamically.
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Implementing an internal DSL in Ruby
On Christmas Day 2007 I released the 0.0.1 version of expectations. Expectations is the result of several months of designing what I wanted the Domain... more »
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Static Typing Considered Harmful
Given a good test suite the return on investment simply does not justify the use of static typing. In 5 years, we'll view compilation as the... more »
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Avoiding costly typos
Typos are generally unfortunate, but greatly upsetting when they cost you a few hours of your life. I have a few rules I try to follow in an attempt... more »
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Is being a niche language developer good for your career?
February marks 2 years of nothing but Ruby projects. I'm still happy with the decision, but choosing Ruby has certainly brought unexpected... more »
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Learing Rails is Easy, Mastering Rails is Hard
There's plenty of hype and momentum around Ruby on Rails. The screencasts give quick demos of how easy it is to craft a solution using Ruby on Rails.... more »
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Array#collect_with_remaining
While looking through our core extensions I found the Array#collect_with_remaining method. The method was designed to yield each element with the... more »
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