Comments on: Just hack http://rc3.org/2006/05/03/just-hack/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Sun, 20 May 2012 12:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jperkins http://rc3.org/2006/05/03/just-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-930 jperkins Mon, 22 May 2006 13:25:12 +0000 http://rc3.org/wordpress/?p=7414#comment-930 <p>Came across this presentation on Ruby idioms this morning: <a href="http://www.cbcg.net/talks/rubyidioms/" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.cbcg.net/talks/rubyidioms/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbcg.net/talks/rubyidioms/</a></a></p> Came across this presentation on Ruby idioms this morning: http://www.cbcg.net/talks/rubyidioms/

]]> By: Danny O'Brien http://rc3.org/2006/05/03/just-hack/comment-page-1/#comment-929 Danny O'Brien Fri, 05 May 2006 06:09:08 +0000 http://rc3.org/wordpress/?p=7414#comment-929 <p>I'm in much the same position, but one thing I find useful these days is that if I'm doing test-first work, then I can hack out something dreadful first pass, and then fiddle around with it a little to see what works and what doesn't. So I'll gradually drop in more ruby idioms like "yield" blocks and duck-typing, but only after my own first version works.</p> <p>It saves you diving down that rathole where you're trying to do the right thing, but it doesn't work, so you try something else, and that doesn't either, and finally you end up with about fifteen half-understood idioms all smershed up, and nothing working.</p> I’m in much the same position, but one thing I find useful these days is that if I’m doing test-first work, then I can hack out something dreadful first pass, and then fiddle around with it a little to see what works and what doesn’t. So I’ll gradually drop in more ruby idioms like “yield” blocks and duck-typing, but only after my own first version works.

It saves you diving down that rathole where you’re trying to do the right thing, but it doesn’t work, so you try something else, and that doesn’t either, and finally you end up with about fifteen half-understood idioms all smershed up, and nothing working.

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