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Design Patterns in Ruby
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Design Patterns in Ruby

by Russ Olsen
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 28m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 18. Convention Over Configuration

As the final pattern discussed in this book, we will look at Convention Over Configuration, a pattern that did not originate in Design Patterns but comes to us straight from the Rails framework. Convention Over Configuration is arguably one of the keys to the success of Rails. It is a bit different from the other patterns that we have examined in this book in that it is bigger and more ambitious. While the other patterns mostly dealt on the smaller scale of pulling together a number of related classes, Convention Over Configuration is concerned with pulling together whole applications and application frameworks. How do you structure an application or a framework so that it is extensible, so that other ...

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