Why Best Practices?

This is JEG2's segment of the Ruby Rogues panel form LSRC 2013.

Transcript

1. I Only Have Time to Make One Point The others made me include this slide!
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3. Thanks!
4. Why Best Practices?
5. How Should We Use Struct? class Specialized < Struct.new(:whatever) # ... define custom methods here... end Specialized = Struct.new(:whatever) do # ... define custom methods here... end
6. I Prefer the Block Form But that’s not the point!
7. Code Similarity and Malleability Specialized = Struct.new(:whatever) do # ... define custom methods here... end Trivial = Struct.new(:whatever)
8. An Extra Class • The anonymous class doesn’t tell us much • Code reloading may cause “TypeError: superclass mismatch…” [Specialized, #<Class:0x007f8ba7389d18>, Struct, Enumerable, Object, PP::ObjectMixin, Kernel, BasicObject] class Specialized < Struct.new(:whatever) # ... define custom methods here... end
9. The “super” Problem class Specialized < Struct.new(:whatever) def whatever super || :default end include SomeMixin end Specialized = Struct.new(:whatever) do def whatever self[:whatever] || :default end prepend SomeMixin end
10. The Point • It’s not about the one right way to code • It’s about what we learn in the discussion • This trivial example alone includes: • Code malleability • The ancestor class chain • The value of prepend