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.

• 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

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