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Well-factored code often has many small functions. If each adds value, and doesn't just pass the buck, then what do they all do? Typically, they contract their input by making it more specific. Then they delegate these specific data to a delegatee.

Phlip Plumlee http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ Well-factored code often has many small functions. If each adds value, and doesn't just pass the buck, then what do they all do? Typically, they contract their input by making it more specific. Then they delegate these specific data to a delegatee. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35728 2009-03-29T02:40:14Z 2009-03-29T02:40:14Z

I have upgraded several Rails 1.2.x programs to 2.x. This can be quite a leap, and some of the steps are counterintuitive, so this post attempts to put everything together, like a recipe. I'd also like to hear more stories about upgrading platforms; such stories may indeed emend my suggested hacks and tweaks. Yet the point of unit tests, and TDD, is to make the smallest changes possible, and relentlessly test each change. Upgrading a major version tick is a big change, so you must force the upgrade to work incrementally, as a series of small changes.

Phlip Plumlee http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ I have upgraded several Rails 1.2.x programs to 2.x. This can be quite a leap, and some of the steps are counterintuitive, so this post attempts to put everything together, like a recipe. I'd also like to hear more stories about upgrading platforms; such stories may indeed emend my suggested hacks and tweaks. Yet the point of unit tests, and TDD, is to make the smallest changes possible, and relentlessly test each change. Upgrading a major version tick is a big change, so you must force the upgrade to work incrementally, as a series of small changes. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35328 2009-02-15T23:33:08Z 2009-02-15T23:33:08Z

All blogs correlate their posts with tags. This blog post shows how to use these tags to display a mind map, hooking the current post into a tree of related posts.

Phlip Plumlee http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ All blogs correlate their posts with tags. This blog post shows how to use these tags to display a mind map, hooking the current post into a tree of related posts. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.33725 2008-10-09T14:06:20Z 2008-10-09T14:06:20Z

Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a class's interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it. On very complex projects, this technique keeps your partials decoupled.

Phlip Plumlee http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a class's interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it. On very complex projects, this technique keeps your partials decoupled.