The Rich, Flowers, and Piles of Sh%#t - And What To Do About It

tl;dr: the single responsibility pattern is a good idea.

A lightning talk discussion of the problem of preferential attachment in software development. Presented at the Boulder Ruby group.

Transcript

1. THE RICH, FLOWERS, PILES OF S%#T — AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT Stephan Hagemann
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
6. …any of a class of processes in which some quantity, typically some form of wealth or credit, is distributed among a number of individuals or objects according to how much they already have, so that those who are already wealthy receive more than those who are not.
7. …so that those who are already wealthy receive more than those who are not.
13. LARGE RAILS CODEBASES • browsercms • calagator • canvas-lms • citizenry • diaspora • engine • fat_free_crm • fulcrum • loc_counts • onebody • opencongress • opengovernment • portlandcrime • railscollab • rubygems.org • skyline • snorby • spot-us • spree • teambox • tracks
14. find app/models lib -iname "*.rb" -type f -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -r | awk '{print $1}'
18. –Stephan Hagemann “So, what do you do about it?”
19. BILL?
20. BILL! 720000 kids
21. FLOWERS?
22. FLOWERS!
23. YOUR CODE?
24. YOUR CODE!
25. START HERE: S ingle Responsibility Principle O L I D