78: Ben Orenstein - Our All-Time Favorite Refactorings

In this episode, Adam and Ben Orenstein share nine of their favorite refactorings that you can use to clean up your code.

Show Notes

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Links:

• Refactoring Rails, Ben's refactoring course
• The 30 Day Code Quality Challenge, Ben's free 30-day code quality course
• Refactoring from Good to Great, Ben's popular refactoring talk
• Decompose Conditional, an example of "make the implicit explicit"
• Introduce Parameter Object
• Replace Conditional with Polymorphism
• Chasing Perfect, Adam's talk about refactoring with polymorphism
• Introduce Null Object
• Replace Method with Method Object
• "Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring" from the Code Climate blog
• Collection Pipeline, Martin Fowler's article on replacing loops with array transformations
• Curing the Common Loop, Adam's talk on refactoring loops and conditionals
• Refactoring to Collections, Adam's book and video series
• Boundaries, Gary Bernhardt's talk about OO, functional programming, and immutability

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.