7: Something Else Was Smellier

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.

An episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, hosted by thoughtbot, titled "7: Something Else Was Smellier" was published on August 10, 2012 and runs 34 minutes.

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

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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 Shotgun surgery Method object Composition over inheritance paperclip Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests thoughtbot's apprentice.io Parkinson's Law of Triviality (bikeshedding) Broken windows theory rspec's let and subject Mystery Guest Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @joeferris on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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