Mike Burns plays many roles at thoughtbot, including the Haskell enthusiast, their sole Linux user, an object-oriented programmer, unix historian, and the head of the European branch. Talk with him about Scala, Android, Smalltalk, Scheme, how grep got its name, or Ruby if you must. He also has the power to accept your paperclip pull request; bribery is welcome.
Object-oriented Ruby is a hot topic in the Rails world and beyond, but it is not always the appropriate solution.
In this talk I discuss various OO techniques, when to use them, and when a simpler pattern exists in the functional, declarative, or procedural world — including, yes, the Rails framework itself. You will leave knowing when to use an aspect instead of a decorator, a mixin instead of a presenter, or a monoid instead of a factory.
Topics will include:
Giving a similar, though opposite, talk at irb.no (the Oslo Ruby group). I have given other talks on various other topics; see my publicity page for those details.