Planet Arkency

Doing more on reads vs writes

What do you like more in your application? Handling complexity when reading the data or when updating it?

Imagine you have a model such as Product with three potential date attributes:

• publication_on - Nominal date of…

Using singleton objects as default arguments in Ruby

Sometimes you would like to define a method which takes an optional argument, but the programmer might pass nil. And your code needs to distinguish between the value not being provided (default value) and nil. How can it be achieved?