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.