Ruby Book Club Podcast

In which Nadia and Saron discuss using bouncer methods (6.3), the introduction to the 'Refactoring for Confidence' section (7), and the first part of MetricFu (7.1).

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'Therapeutic Refactoring' talk by Katrina Owen

In which Nadia and Saron discuss signaling early termination with throw (5.7), handling failure (6), preferring top-level rescue clause (6.1), and using checked methods for risky operations (6.2).

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Exceptions in Ruby

In which Nadia and Saron discuss representing failure with a special case object (5.4), returning a status object (5.5), and yielding a status object (5.6).

In which Nadia and Saron start Section 5 of Confident Ruby, "Delivering Results." They discuss the intro, writing total functions (5.1), using call backs instead of returning (5.2), and representing failure with a benign value (5.3).

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'CommandQuerySeparation' blog post by Martin Fowler

In which Nadia and Saron discuss yielding a parameter builder object (4.22) and receiving policies instead of data (4.23).

They also repeatedly refer to Chapter 4 as Chapter 2 at the end, but that's because they started discussing Chapter 4 in Episode 2.

In which Nadia and Saron discuss substituting a benign value for nil (4.19), using symbols as placeholder objects (4.20), and bundling arguments into parameter objects (4.21).

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Double Dispatch on Stack Overflow

Tidy Views and Beyond with Decorators — Thoughtbot blog post

In which Nadia & Saron discuss handling special cases with a Guard Clause (4.16), representing special cases as objects (4.17), and representing do-nothing cases as null objects (4.18).

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'Null Object - Something for Nothing' paper by Kevlin Henney

'Nothing is Something' talk by Sandi Metz

In which Nadia & Saron discussing using #fetch to assert the presence of Hash keys (4.13), using #fetch for defaults (4.14), and documenting assumptions with assertions (4.15).

In which Nadia & Saron discuss wrapping collaborators in adapters (4.10), using transparent adapters to gradually introduce abstraction (4.11), and rejecting unworkable values with preconditions.

Nadia and Saron reflect on RailsConf 2016, highlights of their favorite talks, and the takeaways of the largest conference for Rails developers.

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Make Ruby Great Again — Justin Searls