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Category: Design
Episode #519 – Supporting Different Service Versions with OO – Emily Stolfo
How do you gracefully and elegantly support multiple versions of an external API? Join guest chef Emily Stolfo for one approach to this problem.
Episode #518: Humane Exceptions with Hiro Asari
Runtime exceptions in production systems are frustrating on the best of days, but things get extra complicated in the context of a distributed systems architecture. Today, guest chef Hiro Asari …
Episode #512: Single File
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Episode #511: Minimum Viable Method
Is there such a thing as a method that is too small? Is it worth it to extract a method just to satisfy a guideline like the Law of Demeter?
Episode #507: Functional Mockup
Don't be so hasty to jump straight into prototyping with code...
Episode #506: Whole Values in Rails with Justin Weiss
In this long-requested episode, guest chef Justin Weiss returns to teach you how to integrate the Whole Value pattern into Rails applications.
Episode #504: Disposable Object
Treat your objects as disposable to cut down on mutable-state-based bugs.
Episode #498: Query to Command
"Tell, don't ask" is easy to say, but how do you actually put it into practice?
Episode #487: Prototype Pattern
Simplify baroque domain models by flattening hierarchies of reuse.
Episode #483: Extract Default to Method
Some pointers on making your Ruby parameter defaults self-documenting.