7: Something Else Was Smellier

Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots · Aug 10, 2012 · 34m

Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot. Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn't like using rspec's let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.

Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures

Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)

Martin Fowler's Refactoring

Code smell

Case statement code smell

Visitor pattern…