Design Patterns in Ruby

Chapter 14. Easier Object Construction with the Builder

I remember the day we bought my son his first bike. The morning went well enough—the drive to the store, finding the right size, and the lengthy but critical process of selecting the right color. Then there was the middle phase of getting the bike home and getting everything out of the box. Of course, some assembly was required. Perhaps more than some. What followed our happy arrival home was the third phase, the phase that took all afternoon and involved a descent into frustration and multiple skinned knuckles. I spent hours trying to pull together a minor junkyard of parts according to instructions that would have baffled the entire National Security Agency. As it turned out, picking ...