The power of naming conventions

@craftstudiodev no matter what, you want to end up like this when reading your code (after a long time)

Ruby developers are very sensitive to naming things. There are strong conventions regarding class, variable, method and file names, and these are not just organizational or cosmetic – some have their semantics even during code execution. For instance: in Rails a model named “Person” is implicitly tied to the “people” table in the database just by name inspection. In our recent project we’ve been building lots of our application logic around naming. Today I was editing some code and have been blown away realizing how deep we actually went with this over time. Take a look at this single line of code from one of our main Haml templates: = thumbnails_box "Top contributors", :expires_in => 30.minutes, :link => true This renders a generic “thumbnails box” view partial populated with avatars and names of several of our top contributors. What isn’t obvious here is just how much th...

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