Beyond the rails way

Beyond The Rails WayTomasz Giereś @ Lunar Logic

Last week

• The H. Project

• Success?

• Hangover

• Reasons?

Jump back in time

The Java Way

2005Rails comes out

The Rails Way

2006-2008http://paulklipp.com/articles/

from-java-to-ruby-book-summary.pdf

Problems

• Fat models

• Global variables

• Helpers

• …

Where’s Wally?aka understanding and debugging a flow in Rails apps

The Java Way&

The Rails Way

History

History

History

History

History

30-40 years

SOLID

• Principles

• Set of guidelines

• Big applications

• Experience

• Makes sense

Small projects only

• Clearly

• books.llp.pl

The Rails Way criticism

The Solution

KISS

Learn SOLID*

* SOLID != service objects, repositories, presenters

Why to start

• Universal

• Ruby on Rails Developer vs Software Developer

• Predictive workflow

• Creative work?

When to start

• When you can practice it

• When in environment that encourages high quality

• When surrounded by people willing to help

Where to start

• Sandi Metz - Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

• Uncle Bob - Getting a SOLID start

• people at the office you can talk to

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