Searls After Dark #4 - Refactoring vs. Testing @JustinSearls

Justin Searls | Searls After Dark #4 - Refactoring vs. Testing @JustinSearls | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In this episode, Justin decides what to do with the messy class we wrote last week: should we extract refactor several classes out of it? Or delete it and test-drive a fresh implementation using Mocktail and Minitest?

Ep 3: youtu.be/_xE--HDp-Tw
Ep 5: youtu.be/FbiofRQu9qM
Season 1: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIuJbrOVyGjkRj7UM_whr-CPoqcXTOsZa

Stuff covered in this video:
• Roku gin and Sudachi vinegar
• GPT 4.0 updates
• Isolation/mockist/GOOS/discovery TDD with Mocktail
• Discussion of The Last Responsible Moment

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See the whole series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIuJbrOVyGjkRj7UM_whr-CPoqcXTOsZa

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$Searls After Dark #7 - Slash Commands over Shochu Hello, it is another episode of Searls After Dark. Today, we endeavor to implement Slash Commands (`/`) in our nascent chat application. It goes pretty well, sort of! Ep 6: https://youtu.be/wdZjVaWgSlI Ep 8: https://youtu.be/rsvNC2eQhkg Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIuJbrOVyGjkRj7UM_whr-CPoqcXTOsZa News: * New blog post! Never Staff to the Peak: https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-04-03-never-staff-to-the-peak/ * Join us in Atlanta for RailsConf later this month! https://railsconf.org * If you miss that, lets hang at the much-easier-to-get-to Ruby Kaigi in Matsumoto, Japan, next month! https://rubykaigi.org/2023/ Stuff we cover: * Verb-first naming, and why its nice for abstractions to get more specific about behavior and more general about data over time * Chuuhai: https://www.bokksu.com/blogs/news/hard-seltzer-chu-hi * And more specifically, Kodowari Sakaba Lemon Sour: https://www.suntory.co.jp/wnb/kodawarisakaba/ * Kent Becks definition of refactoring: for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032?s=20 * How Ruby Heredocs work in Ruby * That Ruby (being just Perl with classes) saves Regex matches to global $1/$2/etc variables * Default scopes on associations (`proc { order(created_at asc) }` in our case) Email: lets@playstupid.games 📧$

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