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skwp / dynamic_method_spec.rb
Created December 7, 2013 00:44
Fail your build for user-defined style rules.
require 'spec/support/grep_matcher'
describe do
disallow_presence_of pattern: "send(.*#",
location: "app/",
description: "Do not use dynamic method invocations",
failure: "Please change dynamic method call to something more sane."
end
@blaix
blaix / service-objects.md
Created June 12, 2013 11:04
Martin Fowler on Service Objects via the Ruby Rogues Parley mailing list

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Martin Fowler martinfowlercom@gmail.com wrote:

The term pops up in some different places, so it's hard to know what it means without some context. In PoEAA I use the pattern Service Layer to represent a domain-oriented layer of behaviors that provide an API for the domain layer. This may or may not sit on top of a Domain Model. In DDD Eric Evans uses the term Service Object to refer to objects that represent processes (as opposed to Entities and Values). DDD Service Objects are often useful to factor out behavior that would otherwise bloat Entities, it's also a useful step to patterns like Strategy and Command.

It sounds like the DDD sense is the sense I'm encountering most often. I really need to read that book.

The conceptual problem I run into in a lot of codebases is that rather than representing a process, the "service objects" represent "a thing that does the process". Which sounds like a nitpicky difference, but it seems to have a real impact on how people us

@ryanb
ryanb / issues_with_modules.md
Created November 29, 2012 22:38
Points on how modules can make code difficult to read.

My issues with Modules

In researching topics for RailsCasts I often read code in Rails and other gems. This is a great exercise to do. Not only will you pick up some coding tips, but it can help you better understand what makes code readable.

A common practice to organize code in gems is to divide it into modules. When this is done extensively I find it becomes very difficult to read. Before I explain further, a quick detour on instance_eval.

You can find instance_eval used in many DSLs: from routes to state machines. Here's an example from Thinking Sphinx.

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
@olivierlacan
olivierlacan / gist:4062929
Last active February 10, 2024 10:57 — forked from Gregg/gist:968534
Code School Screencasting Framework

Screencasting Framework

The following document is a written account of the Code School screencasting framework. It should be used as a reference of the accompanying screencast on the topic.

Why you should care about screencasting?

You're probably aren't going to take the time to read this document if you're not interested, but there are a lot of nice side effects caused by learning how to create quality screencasts.

  1. Communicating more effectively - At Envy Labs we produce screencasts for our clients all the time. Whether it's demoing a new feature or for a presentation for an invester, they're often much more effective and pleasent than a phone call or screen sharing.
@caniszczyk
caniszczyk / clone-all-twitter-github-repos.sh
Created October 9, 2012 04:25
Clone all repos from a GitHub organization
curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/twitter/repos?per_page=200 | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json"; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| %x[git clone #{repo["ssh_url"]} ]}'
@zenkay
zenkay / gist:3237860
Created August 2, 2012 15:19
Installation tips for RVM/Ruby on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Ruby, RVM and Mountain Lion

Key problems

Mountain Lion (10.8) has three main difference compared to Lion (10.7):

  • XCode 4.4 does not install Command Line Tools by default
  • X11 isn't available anymore
  • The installed version of OpenSSL has some bugs

How to work around

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

@devpuppy
devpuppy / nokogiri libxml homebrew lion
Created November 8, 2011 23:26
How to fix: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.3, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
FIXME:
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.3, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
or
libxml_ruby.bundle: dlsym(0x10fde1900, Init_libxml_ruby): symbol not found
gem uninstall nokogiri libxml-ruby
brew update
brew uninstall libxml2
@saitejaveera
saitejaveera / basic-git-commands
Created October 19, 2011 11:17 — forked from pcx/basic-git-commands
Bsic git command reference
git status -s
first column --> shows difference between committed and staged
second column --> shows difference between staged and unstaged
git diff --> changes between staged and unstaged
git diff --cached --> diff between committed and staged changes
git diff HEAD --> diff between committed and unstaged
--stat --> shorter summary of changes
@joshwalsh
joshwalsh / Git Bash Prompt
Created January 13, 2011 20:40
Show directory, branch and time since last commit
# Prompt Setup
function minutes_since_last_commit {
now=`date +%s`
last_commit=`git log --pretty=format:'%at' -1`
seconds_since_last_commit=$((now-last_commit))
minutes_since_last_commit=$((seconds_since_last_commit/60))
echo $minutes_since_last_commit
}