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Earlier this week, we announced the launch of our subscription service: Learn Prime .

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…last two chapters provide tips for identifying and fixing mixin abuse.

The book is a work in progress, and currently contains around 145 pages of content. A $ 49 purchase gets you access to the current release of the book, all future updates, and the companion example application. In addition, purchasers can send thoughtbot their toughest Ruby, Rails, and refactoring questions.

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…specific example of extracting Value Objects. In addition, we discuss how you can use Ruby's classes-as-objects attitude to eliminate the need for most abstract factory classes.

The book is a work in progress, and currently contains around 123 pages of content. A $ 49 purchase gets you access to the current release of the book, all future updates, and the companion example application. In addition, purchasers have the ability to send thoughtbot their toughest Ruby, Rails, and refactoring …

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…use composition through polymorphic associations.

The book is a work in progress, and currently contains around 104 pages of content. A $ 49 purchase gets you access to the current release of the book, all future updates, and the companion example application. In addition, purchasers have the ability to send thoughtbot their toughest Ruby, Rails, and refactoring questions.

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…new chapters to announce this week in Ruby Science. If you're already reading Ruby Science, make sure to log into GitHub and download the latest version.

With this week's updates, you'll learn how to keep your classes from becoming junk drawers by learning to avoid Divergent Change. You'll also see an example of using Convention Over Configuration to remove tedious boilerplate and avoid Duplicated Code.

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We have three new chapters to announce this week in Ruby Science. If you're already reading Ruby Science, make sure to log into GitHub and download the latest version.

Here's what's new:

Code smells

Callback

Solutions

Extract Validator

Replace Callback with Method

The book is a work in progress, and currently contains around 76 pages of content. Purchasing the book also gets you access to the companion example application, as well as the ability to send thoughtbot …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, GitHub

…Introduce Form Object

Move Method

The book is a work in progress, and we've now got around 60 pages of content. The purchase also includes an example application and support for any Ruby, Rails, and Refactoring questions you have. You can get access now for an early purchase price of $ 39. This will increase to $ 49 on January 31, 2013.

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