Good names vs bad comments

While designing APIs I always make extra efforts to provide good names for functions to help programmers write better programs and their readers understand what their programs do.

As much as auto-completion helps writing programs…

When should we get started refactoring?

Simple questions always go with simple answers
1. Smell something wrong: This is the best solution I know but I couldn’t go with since I will break something.
2. Hard to implement the new: It becomes harder to implement/add new things.

Refactoring Rails models with code duplication

So this is the Purchase model that I’m going to be discussing in this post:

class Purchase < ActiveRecord::Base

   def self.all_pending
     where(status: 'pending')
   end

Responsible Refactoring Tips

Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing computer code — changing the factoring — without changing its external behavior.
 — Wikipedia

The goal of refactoring is to improve maintainability. With that in mind, it is important to refactor…