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Get Rid of That Code Smell – Attributes

Posted by on April 4, 2012 13 comments

In this post I will show you why using attribute accessors is a code smell in most of the cases. This is a very convenient feature of Ruby but you should only consider using it if you’re implementing a data-like …

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Get Rid of That Code Smell

Posted by on March 30, 2012 7 comments

While working on DataMapper 2 libraries we are measuring quality of our code with various code metric tools. Dan Kubb has been using this approach successfully for over 2 years in Veritas which resulted in a beautiful and clean code. …

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DataMapper-2 Presentation From wroc_love.rb Conference

Posted by on March 13, 2012 3 comments

Once again thank you for the awesome event that took place in Wrocław last weekend – the wroc_love.rb conference. We’ve had fantastic and inspiring talks and many great discussions. It’s clear to me that a new era in our community …

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New Virtus Release With Truly Awesome Features

Posted by on February 8, 2012 8 comments

Just a quick announcement that I just pushed a new version of Virtus with support for long awaited features: EmbeddedValue, member type coercions for array/set attributes and ValueObject. Current version is 0.2.0, please give it a try and tell me …

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Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests!

Posted by on February 2, 2012 46 comments

It really surprises me that there are people arguing that writing controller tests doesn’t make sense. Probably the most common argument is that actions are covered in acceptence tests along with checking if views are properly rendered. Right? Right…well that’s …

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Ruby DataMapper Status

Posted by on January 10, 2012 27 comments

In my recent post I gave you a brief overview of what I think about the state of Ruby ORMs. Since I’m involved in the development of DataMapper project I want to write a little more lines of text to …

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The State of Ruby ORM

Posted by on November 29, 2011 37 comments

We have a lot of different Object-Relational Mapper implementations in Ruby (and a ton and a half of Mongo mappers ;)) and it’s probably a good thing. It seems like the only ORM that really matters right now is ActiveRecord …

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Making ActiveRecord Models Thin

Posted by on August 1, 2011 37 comments

“Skinny Controller, Fat Model” is a well known best practice in Ruby community. Everybody seems to agree with it and follows it. It’s pretty clear what a skinny controller is. The question is what is a fat model and what …

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