Clean Ruby: A Guide to Crafting Better Code for Rubyists [kornbolt]





Learn how to make better decisions and write cleaner Ruby code. This book shows you how to avoid messy code that is hard to test and which cripples productivity. Author Carleton DiLeo shares hard-learned lessons gained from years of experience across numerous codebases both large and small. Each chapter covers the topics you need to know to make better decisions and optimize your productivity. Many books will tell you how to do something; this book will tell you why you should do it. Start writing code you love.



What You Will Learn



Build better classes to help promote code reuse

Improve your decision making and make better, smarter choices

Identify bad code and fixed it

Create quality names for all of your variables, classes, and modules

Write better, concise classes

Improve the quality of your methods

Properly use modules

Clarify your Boolean logic

See when and how you refactor

Improve your understanding of TDD and write better tests

Who This Book Is For



This book is written for Ruby developers. There is no need to learn a new language or translate concepts to Ruby.