Refactoring: Ruby Edition 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Jay Fields (Author), Shane Harvie (Author), Martin Fowler (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Part of: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series (20 books)

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The Definitive Refactoring Guide, Fully Revamped for Ruby

With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler’s classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout–not code adapted from Java or any other environment.

The authors introduce a detailed catalog of more than 70 proven Ruby refactorings, with specific guidance on when to apply each of them, step-by-step instructions for using them, and example code illustrating how they work. Many of the authors’ refactorings use powerful Ruby-specific features, and all code samples are available for download.

Leveraging Fowler’s original concepts, the authors show how to perform refactoring in a controlled, efficient, incremental manner, so you methodically improve your code’s structure without introducing new bugs. Whatever your role in writing or maintaining Ruby code, this book will be an indispensable resource.

This book will help you

Understand the core principles of refactoring and the reasons for doing it
Recognize “bad smells” in your Ruby code
Rework bad designs into well-designed code, one step at a time
Build tests to make sure your refactorings work properly
Understand the challenges of refactoring and how they can be overcome
Compose methods to package code properly
Move features between objects to place responsibilities where they fit best
Organize data to make it easier to work with
Simplify conditional expressions and make more effective use of polymorphism
Create interfaces that are easier to understand and use
Generalize more effectively
Perform larger refactorings that transform entire software systems and may take months or years
Successfully refactor Ruby on Rails code

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About the Author

Jay Fields is a software developer for DRW Trading and a frequent conference presenter. Jay has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. Jay’s website is available at www.jayfields.com.

Shane Harvie has delivered software in Agile environments in the United States, India, and Australia. He works for DRW Trading in Chicago and blogs at www.shaneharvie.com.

Martin Fowler is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and one of the world’s leading experts in the effective design of enterprise software. He has pioneered object-oriented development, patterns, agile methodologies, domain modeling, UML, and Extreme Programming. His books include Refactoring, Analysis Patterns, and UML Distilled. His book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, won Software Development’s Jolt Productivity Award and Javaworld.com’s best Java book award.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002TIOYWG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (October 15, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 15939 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 631 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled

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For all of my career I've been interested in the design and architecture of software systems, particularly those loosely classed as Enterprise Applications. I firmly believe that poor software design leads to software that is difficult to change in response to growing needs, and encourages buggy software that saps the productivity of computer users everywhere.
I'm always trying to find out what designs are effective, what approaches lead people into trouble, how we can organize our work to do better designs, and how to communicate what I've learned to more people. My books and website are all ways in which I can share what I learn and I'm glad I've found a way to make a living doing this.
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Vlad GURDIGA

Worth reading if you do Ruby

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013

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Even if you’ve read the original “Refactoring”, Ruby is original enough to find many interesting Ruby-specific approaches in this version.

And although the purely technical and immediately practical part of the book is of course invaluable, I liked the most the closing chapter 13: “Putting it all together”. I know this is may be only me, and I don’t mind that. ;)

Here is one of the take-away quotes:

“Stopping is the strongest move in the refactorer’s repertoire.”

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Paul Swagerty

Good book

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2014

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I wish I'd read this book years ago. I got caught up in reading new tech books, rather than books like this, that cover programming theory. Reading this and books similar to it would have spared me much frustration. Read, learn, practice, grow.

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Matt Lankford

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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2016

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Excellent Ruby version of the original, much more to my liking

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Andres Paglayan

Code Poetry how to

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2009

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Got it yesterday and cannot detach it from my hands. I won't list a review of content here because it's on the book preview.

Techniques you might already be doing intuitively, and many you probably don't, are described with clear examples and detail helping you convert intuitive decisions into a continuous working method.

This book is a cornerstone for people who is serious about Ruby and want their code to be readable, robust, built from testing, beautiful and easy to change.

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Koby

Must Read for Ruby Developers Not Familiar With the Specific Refactorings

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2013

A must read for any Ruby developer who isn't familiar with the specifics of refactoring. If you've heard of refactoring and think you're doing it when you move code around, you're probably doing some variation of the specific refactorings discussed in this book. You need to read this book to better understand the various kinds of refactoring that you can utilize to clean up your code base so that it's more readable and maintainable.

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newlix

Really poor layout

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014

It's much better to read the original edition even if you have to translate JAVA into Ruby.
There are so many errors.
Many refactorings start at the end of a page and are immediately cut by the page. It is a very unpleasant reading experience.
Strongly recommend go for the classic JAVA edition.

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