From: Henrik Martensson <henrik.martensson@...>
Date: 2006-02-07T14:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby design patterns and idioms

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 02:01, Jack Christensen wrote:
> Are there any books or other resources on design patterns or techniques 
> specific to dynamic languages?

Here is a description of a refactoring I found useful awhile ago:
http://kallokain.blogspot.com/2006/01/refactoring-extract-mixin.html.

There is another, "Replace Mixin With Class", but I haven't made a
writeup of that one yet. (I will, its just that I am up to my eyebrows
in other projects right now.)

Those two refactorings together where useful in cleaning up
Test::Unit::XML a bit. You can read about it here:
http://kallokain.blogspot.com/2006/01/ruby-refactorings.html.

/Henrik

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