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Breaking bad - what happens when you defy conventions?
Talk by Christoph Gockel
What is Rails?
It's like a city. Each module is like a different part of a city.
Areas of Freedom in Rails
Status Quo
Pareto principle: 80/20 principle. 80% of Rails applications only use around 20% of the Rails framework.
Analyzing the Boot Process
- Skipping the
rails/allflag and only pick and choose the components neededContinue reading
Architecture: the next Generation
Talk on architecture from Taylor Jones
Rails Architecture
Architecture is the root of quite a bit of technical debt.
History of Application Architecture
Early web development
- License driven
- Difficult to deploy
- Inconsistent code organization
Rails market change
- Open Source
- More straightforward to deploy
- Convention over ... Continue reading
Built to last: A domain-driven approach to beautiful systems
Talk from Andrew Hao at Rails Conf 2017.
What Makes a System Beautiful?
- Language: syntax, form, expressiveness
- Tooling - developer ergonomics
- Tests - test practices and coverage
- Longevity - it can stand the test of time with changing business/product requirements
Deconstructing a Monolith
- Microservices are challenging
- How much should be extracted? ... Continue reading
An optimistic proposal for making horrible code... Bearable
Talk from Joe Mastey
Common approaches to working with legacy code
- Continue adding onto poorly structured code
- Making small changes
Alternative approach
- Name the evil (the issues with the codebase)
- Sorting files by line length
bundle exec rake stats- Using tools such as RuboCop to set code structure benchmarks
- Adding Rspec tests tha... Continue reading
How to Write Better Code Using Mutation Testing
Talk by John Backus at Rails Conf 2017.
Mutation Coverage
"The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests do not notice, then either that code isn't being covered or it does not have a speced side effect." - mbj
mutant gem automatically checks for mutation coverage in order to improve the test suite.
Implem... Continue reading
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