Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Book description
The Complete Guide to Writing More Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Ruby Applications
Ruby's widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Few people want to grow up like their parents. In the early 2010s, many programmers scoffed at the design principles of the ‘90s. Why should anyone care about the nuances of object-oriented design? That’s such a Java thing to bother with!
To seasoned developers, this rejection felt like a baby and bathwater situation. Then Sandy Metz came to the rescue. Her book persuaded younger developers (or at least, those in the Ruby community) that those old ideas were still valuable.
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby traced a straight line from the pioneering times of Smalltalk, through the years of the…
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