Episode 244: 238 RR Refactoring

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 244: 238 RR Refactoring
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 01:01:03
• Published: 2015-12-16 17:00

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02:26 - Refactoring (Definition) and Where People Fail

03:55 - Tests and Refactoring

• How do you decide when your codebase is untestable?

10:59 - Managing Scope

11:42 - Why We Refactor; The Value of Refactoring

• Coraline's Data-Driven Refactoring Talk

17:13 - Refactoring Tools

20:40 - When Refactoring Gets Put Off; Establishing a Code Culture

26:23 - Refactoring Strategies

• Extract Method
• Extract Class
• Introduce Explaining Variable

37:38 - Performance Tradeoffs

41:42 - Generative Testing

• approvals

50:33 - Measurement

53:08 - Examples and Resources

• Martin Fowler: Catalog of Refactorings
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition by Jay Fields
• Katrina Owen: Therapeutic Refactoring @ Cascadia Ruby Conf 2012
• Sam Livingston-Gray: Fluent Refactoring @ LoneStarRuby 2013

Picks

Longmire (Avdi)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Cleaning your office (Chuck)
Hsing-Hui Hsu: Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana: Parsers for Great Good @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Betsy Haibel: s/regex/DSLs/: What Regex Teaches Us About DSL Design @ RubyConf 2015 (Coraline)
Velocity 2016 Call for speakers (Saron)
RailsConf 2016 (Saron)