Hey guys,
Reading an awesome book at the moment and I highly recommend it. It’s called ‘Objects on Rails’. You can read it for free “here”:http://objectsonrails.com/ or buy it ($5) to get the DRM-free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions of the book.
Here are a few awesome snippets
Posts vs. Entries. Hold on a sec. Aren’t we getting our terms confused here? First we said a Blog has “entries”. But then we started talking about “posts”. Shouldn’t we pick one or the other?
In fact, this choice to use multiple terms is deliberate. The dark side of having sensible framework conventions is that after a while, those conventions turn into assumptions. In this case, if we called the entries collection posts instead, there’s a good chance we’d start mentally conflating it with the Post class. Anything in blog.posts is a Post object, end of story.
This is one of those subtle assumptions that can lead to big problems. For instance, if we assume blog.new_post is equivalent to Post.new, we might start to just skip the Blog part and write Post.new(…) or Post.create(…) whenever we want a new blog entry.
Now imagine some time passes, and we add the ability for a Blog to have many different types of posts—photos, embedded videos, etc, each represented by different classes such as PhotoPost and VideoPost. A call to Blog.new_post(…) looks at the arguments arguments and chooses the right type of object to instantiate. Unfortunately, we hard-coded references to Post everywhere, and now we have to go back and change them all. </br> – Objects on rails
-Matt