Feb 2011 - Fat Models Aren't Enough (a refactoring Rails topic) w/ Jeff Casimir

Agenda

5:30 - Introductions
5:40 - Questions, open discussion
5:50 - Presentation: Fat Models Aren't Enought (Jeff Casimir)
6:30 - Official end of meeting (but usually people are still hanging out afterwards)

Here's the presentation description from Jeff

=== Fat Models Aren't Enough === "Fat Models, Skinny Controllers" they scream. Pushing your logic down to the model layer is a key step to improve testability, maintainability, and code quality. But many developers now have "junk drawer" models that don't realize these goals.  Having a fat model isn't enough! In this session we'll explore techniques for improving your models including: * Extracting code into libraries * Encapsulating logic into processor objects * Using the presenter pattern * Deciding between class and instance methods * Guidelines to judge code quality and complexity When you leave this session you'll be dying to refactor some code!