Ten Commandments of the Ruby Programmer

1. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS of the ruby programmer
2. I AM EMILIO A RUBY PROGRAMMER Software developer +15 yrs 10Pines founder Agiles community founding member agiles 2012 conference co-chair husband, father and homeBrewer
3. I. Thou shalt have no domain objects coupled with thy frameworks
4. class Speaker < ActiveRecord::Base ! devise :omniauthable, :omniauth_providers => [:facebook] ! def approve_session(session) # do something SessionMailer.approve(speaker: self, session: session).deliver end ! end
5. II. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL & PASTE CODE
6. public List selectPending(List registrations) { ! List pending = new ArrayList(); for (Registration registration: registrations) { if (!registration.isPaid()) { pending.add(registration); } } return pending; }
7. ! def select_pending(registrations) registrations.reject(&:paid?) end ! !
8. class SessionsController < ApplicationController ! def create ! @session = Session.new(session_params) ! if @session.save redirect_to my_sessions_path, notice: 'Session created successfully' else render :new end ! end end
9. class Program ! def find_by_author(author) ! sessions = Session.where(author: author, approved: true) ! if sessions.empty? # do something else # do something end end ! end
10. III. THOU SHALT NOT USE NIL
11. class AttendeePresenter ! def phone_number ! unless self.address.nil? unless self.address.phone_number.nil? self.address.phone_number else 'Phone number not present' end else 'Address not present' end end ! end
12. class Attendee def initialize(address) if address.nil? raise ArgumentError, 'Address is required' end @address = address end ! def address @address || UnknownAddress.new end ! def phone_number Optional.new(@address). within {|address| address.phone_number} end end
13. IV. THOU SHALT NOT USE IF
14. class BankAccount ! def process a_transaction ! if a_transaction.type == :purchase # charge transaction fee else # assume refund end end ! end
15. class BankAccount ! def process a_transaction a_transaction.process self end ! def process_purchase a_transaction # charge transaction fee end ! def process_refund a_transaction # refund transaction fee end ! end
16. class Purchase < Transaction ! def process a_payment_method a_payment_method.process_purchase self end end ! class Refund < Transaction ! def process a_payment_method a_payment_method.process_refund self end end
17. V. THOU SHALT NOT MOCK
18. require 'spec_helper' ! describe Registration do ! it 'pays a registration' do ! attendee_id = 1 a_registration = double("Registration") an_attendee = double("Attendee", registration: a_registration) ! allow(Attendee).to receive(:find) { an_attendee } ! expect(a_registration).to receive(:paid=).with(true) expect(a_registration).to receive(:save).and_return(true) ! expect_any_instance_of(PaypalAccount).to receive(:process) ! Registration.pay(attendee_id) ! end end
19. VI. THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THY TESTS IN VAIN
20. VI. THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THY IN VAIN VII. REMEMBER TO REFACTOR EVERY DAY
21. VI. THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THY IN VAIN VII. REMEMBER TO REFACTOR VII. THOU SHALT BEAR YOUR FELLOW PROGRAMMERS AND PAIR WITH THEM
22. IX. CHALLENGE HONOUR /[RUBY|RAILS|.*]/ FATHER AND MOTHER
23. X. NO GRAVEN PRACTICES
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