[LRUG] Objects and on Hexagonal Rails

[Mike Kelly]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org> wrote:
> I actually don't think it's that hard to understand and read good OO
> code, even for a less experienced coder. It's easier to understand
> boilerplate rails code because we are used to seeing those abstractions
> in other apps, but that's often because contort our domain to fit
> inside the standard abstractions. Code that is set free from these
> constraints can be surprisingly simple to follow.

Exactly. Afaict, the challenge of getting up to speed on a codebase
has little to do with being familiar with the idioms used, and more to
do with whether the code itself is coherent and  intention revealing
(both of which should be key metrics of "good" OO code).

It seems like a big assumption that breaking complex parts of an
application into discrete objects that better respect SRP is somehow
more complicated for less experienced programmers to understand than
it having been swept under the carpet in the "Rails way"... Does
anyone have first-hand experience of this?

Cheers,
M