Tag Archives: ruby

Get Rid of That Code Smell – Duplication

Posted by on May 11, 2012 3 comments

This is a post from the Get Rid of That Code Smell series. Removing duplication from the code is a seemingly easy task. In many cases it is pretty straight-forward – you look at similar bits of code and you …

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Get Rid of That Code Smell – Control Couple

Posted by on April 11, 2012 16 comments

This is a post from the Get Rid of That Code Smell series. If you are serious about Object Oriented Design and respecting Single Responsibility Principle then you definitely want to get rid of Control Couple code smells. In this …

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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 5 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 2 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 40 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 22 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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