Driving design: adding a touch of our domain to our APIs

Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by Guilherme Silveira.

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In this second screencast from the Driving Design series, the amazingly simple form gem is shown along with a simple DSL implementation. Its current API uses a fluent interface through Ruby hashes that allows easy output customization. This is the current version of simple_form that allows one to configure the building process of a form: [...]

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Simple changes might not lead to simple solutions

Posted on 10. Jan, 2011 by mauricioaniche.

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The process of delivering a new feature is consisted in implementing or fixing something that the current state is not capable of. Given the set of all problems that your software solves at this moment, there are many different ways to solve them. All of those possible solutions are valid and would end up in [...]

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Designing code: fluent interfaces and your domain

Posted on 03. Jan, 2011 by Guilherme Silveira.

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Together with coworkers, we have been talking about the influence of Test First in our design: it is not only about testing, or testing all the time. The discussion is on how developers should learn from understanding feedback from every type of tests (unit, integration and so on) and act accordingly. We have begun a [...]

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Practice: Avoid guesses, do what is expected to be done

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Guilherme Silveira.

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Symptom: faced with two possibilities because the client did not let his desire clear enough, one path is chosen and it is often the wrong one. After delivering a new functionality, the client is the one who is going to test, approve and use it. Because it is difficult for developers to think as their [...]

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