Designing Code for Maintainability
Everything we’ve learned so far about making our codebase maintainable has been encapsulated with clear and simple guidelines. The conventions we’ve just discussed are shared by Rubyists everywhere and will make it very easy for anyone, including you, to navigate your code. This means that bugs get fixed faster, and new features can be pushed out quickly, which means users win, the app’s developers win, and you win.
However, there’s more to maintainability than just an organized file structure. The internal design of our application is just as important. Since Ruby is an object-oriented language, the internal design of a Ruby application revolves around organizing code into classes and modules. Achieving ...
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