[LRUG] A question on DRYness on testing methods that get / set state

[Steve Tooke]

Not exactly what you're after - but Avdi Grimm's new book is an interesting
look at taking a much more object oriented view of building a rails app. It
covers some of the same sort of ground.

http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/11/15/early-access-beta-of-objects-on-rails-now-available-2/

Steve

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, James Cumming
<james.cumming at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Chris, do you know of any good articles / blogs on this?
>
> cheers
>
> *James Cumming, CFA
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> *From:* Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org>
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> *To:* London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 10:42
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> *Subject:* Re: [LRUG] A question on DRYness on testing methods that get /
> set state
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>
> On 23 Nov 2011, at 10:28, James Cumming wrote:
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> > Incidentally, I was listening to an interesting podcast interview with
> > Gary Bernhardt yesterday.  Among other things, it touched on different
> > approaches to testing; might be a good start to further exploration.
> > http://www.engineyard.com/podcast/s01e40-gary-bernhardt<http://www.engineyard.com/podcast/s01e40-gary-bernhardt>
>
> Interesting interview this was. Has anyone used classes in the lib folder
> extensively as Gary suggests? How have you found it?
>  I can think of a few of my projects where this make sense and hopefully
> speed up autotest.
>
>
> Yes, I do this extensively these days (e-petitions whole searching
> infrastructure was built in lib).
>
> It has a few big advantages: one of which is faster tests, but also it
> helps you to depend on your framework less and improve design through
> reducing collaborators.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
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