Something Else Was Smellier

In episode #7 of the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast, Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot.

Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn’t like using rspec’s let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.

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Notes & Links

• Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures
• Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)
• Martin Fowler’s Refactoring
• Code smell
• Case statement code smell
• Visitor pattern
• Shotgun surgery
• Method object
• Composition over inheritance
• paperclip
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• thoughtbot’s apprentice.io
• Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (bikeshedding)
• Broken windows theory
• rspec’s let and subject
• Mystery Guest

Upcoming Events

• Boston Ruby Group, August 14th. “Refactoring - A Live Coding Odyssey”
• eurucamp, August 17 - August 20, “When Not to Use Object-Oriented Techniques”
• Madison Ruby, August 23-25, “Teaching Rails panel”

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