Scary Large Code Surgery With Pivots
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Scary Large Code Surgery With Pivots

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From the Introduction:

This technique is a success story.

We were asked to make big changes, right at the heart of the oldest code in a very large codebase. It was old, crufty code, with few tests and often mysterious intent. It was clear that we could spike and refactor our hearts out for months and still not wind up with better code. This is what we did.

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Chris Horn
Chris Horn

Dad!, Husband, Programmer, Generalist, Organizer, BarCamp, #ROC, Hacks/Hackers, Coderetreat, Ruby, Rails

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Scary Large
    • Successful Applications
    • You Are Here
    • Others Have Tried
    • Defer Real Change
    • Policy, Role, Rule, Feature, Environment, Authorization
    • Process
  • 3. How Does This Happen?
    • One Ticket at a time
    • The Generalized Hypothetical
    • The Responsible Developer
  • 4. Pivots
    • Naming
    • Block Element Modifier
    • Make a Pivot
      • my_rails_app
    • Discipline
  • 5. Getting Started
    • Apologies
    • Assumptions
    • Just show me the code
    • Start Green
    • PIVOT_MASTER
      • Ruby on Rails autoload_paths
      • An Empty Module
      • An Empty Master Class
      • An Initializer
      • An Empty Test
  • 6. Pivot Surgery
    • Overview
    • Search For A Pivot
      • Coordination
      • Don’t Fail
      • Strategy
      • Example
    • Create A New Factory For The Pivot
    • Start The Pivot
      • Red
      • Green
      • Finish the Pivot
        • The Tests Are Everything
      • Activate The Pivot
        • Red
        • Green
      • Guard
    • Iterate
  • 7. Pivot Concepts
    • Progress
    • How And Why
    • Documentation
      • Example: reset_counter
      • Tags
    • The Beginning Of The End
  • 8. Design and Refactoring
    • Take Stock
    • What Should My Code Look Like?
    • What Happens Next
  • 9. Refining Pivots
    • Tag Editor In Chief
    • Grouping
  • 10. Removing Pivots
    • Assumptions
    • SpecialPricing
    • Steps
  • 11. Reference
    • Books
    • Articles and Talks
    • Standards
    • Courses
    • Code Samples
  • 12. Thank You

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