In this episode, we look back at what an amazing year it was, from adopting our puppies, to our first international conference, Tropical.rb, to RailsConf, RailsWorld, Rocky Mountain Ruby, and RubyConf. Heck, we even started a podcast!

If you want to watch our conference talks, you can find us on RubyVideo.dev:

• Alan
• Fito

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In this episode of The Code Gardener, we discuss the Ports & Adapters pattern, also known as Hexagonal Architecture.

STOP! Before listening to the episode, please take the time to go watch Alistair Cockburn's excellent talk on Hexagonal Architecture at the Tech Excellence Conference (link below).

Seriously. We'll be here when you get back.

Links...

• Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn at Tech Excellence Conference
• Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne from GoRuCo 2012
• Together: The Merb Story by Yehuda Katz
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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In this special Thanksgiving weekend episode, Fito and Alan discuss what they're thankful for this year, and then tackle why DRY is the worst programming advice ever.

Links...

• A Brewer's Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024.
• The Case for WET Tests by Amanda Beiner
• Let's Not by Joe Ferris
• 3A – Arrange, Act, Assert by Bill Wake
• Rule of Three from Refactoring by Martin Fowler (page 58), attributed to Don Roberts
• "Last Responsible Moment" from Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres (page 25), though Beck & Andres may have been influenced by Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck (page 57), which was released a year earlier.

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