If you have lived on the “fat models, skinny controllers” diet, you have definitely been going in the right direction. Keeping controllers skinny, though, is...

This article is an intro to the advanced waters of testing AntiPatterns. If you are a rather new to Test-Driven-Development and want to pick up a couple of...

If Design Patterns and AntiPatterns are rather new to you and you see yourself as being more on the beginner side of all things Ruby/Rails, then this one is...

Enabling users to upload an avatar in your application is an important feature that should be enabled. In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable image...

In this article we’ll focus on the main View AntiPattern—PHPitis—and work through a couple of techniques to keep your views lean and mean. Having tons of...

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This final article mentions a couple more smells you should look out for and sums up what this small series wanted to achieve. A final whiff, if you like…

This newbie-friendly article covers another round of smells and refactorings you should familiarize yourself with early in your career. We cover case...

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