Into the Heart of Darkness: Rails Anti-Patterns
summary
Practical catalog of Rails anti‑patterns with concrete fixes: finds unused plugins and routes, shows an 80+ line controller method pulled apart, warns about IRB‑pasted hacks and fragile external calls, and quantifies smells with tools like reek and metric_fu; prescribes executable business stories with cucumber specs, GitHub review workflows, and automated builds (mentions Integrity). Emphasis stays on measurable checks, build artifacts, and when to mock versus run integration checks.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:19INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS
- 6:12ANTI-PATTERN
- 6:43KNOW YOUR APIS
- 7:30KNOW YOUR CODE
- 19:41gem install reek (or metric_fu)
- 21:39ORPHANS
- 22:42(DIS)ORGANIZATION
- 25:05THE COUPLED TEST
- 26:46Complex tests mean complex code
- 27:35Make Decisions and Document Them
- 29:19Build Artifacts
- 31:08Reviews and Retrospectives
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