Introduction Software is constantly evolving, both in specification and implementation. Keeping an extensible and maintainable codebase is, therefore, crucial to deal with these changes quickly and easily. Ruby on Rails comes with a lot of good techniques and patterns out of the box that facilitates this. Nevertheless, some of these
Introduction In the first part of this article we mentioned some important design principles and how they are not respected when overusing patterns and techniques that come with Ruby on Rails. In this part we will continue to investigate these and how we can mitigate the problems they cause to maintainability. Overused
Introduction Software is constantly evolving, both in specification and implementation. Keeping an extensible and maintainable codebase is therefore crucial in order to deal with these changes quickly and easily. Ruby on Rails comes with a lot of good techniques and patterns out of the box that facilitate this. Nevertheless, some