Rails™ AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails™ Refactoring

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1 Models

AntiPattern: Voyeuristic Models

Solution: Follow the Law of Demeter

Solution: Push All find() Calls into Finders on the Model

Solution: Keep Finders on Their Own Model

AntiPattern: Fat Models

Solution: Delegate Responsibility to New Classes

Solution: Make Use of Modules

Solution: Reduce the Size of Large Transaction Blocks

AntiPattern: Spaghetti SQL

Solution: Use Your Active Record Associations and Finders Effectively

Solution: Learn and Love the Scope Method

Solution: Use a Full-Text Search Engine

AntiPattern: Duplicate Code Duplication

Solution: Extract into Modules

Solution: Write a Plugin

Solution: Make Magic Happen with Metaprogramming

2 Domain Modeling

AntiPattern: ...