Workshop - Simplifying Code: Monster to Elegant in Less Than 5 steps

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Workshop shows four concrete refactorings with runnable Ruby/Rails exercises and Minitest checks: intentional revealing method, special case objects, replace method with method object, service objects. Steps are explicit — usually fewer than five edits — and each exercise lives in a repo branch with solution files. Patterns fix Fat Models, God Objects, long methods, nil NoMethodError and naming pain by extracting new classes/NullUser objects and one‑line delegations. Tests are required before changes and the extracted service/method objects are shown working against sample data.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:10Welcome
3. 6:05Tutes story
4. 9:08Four patterns
5. 11:45Intentional Reading Method
6. 18:07Sandy Metz
7. 26:29Method Objects
8. 27:50Create a new class
9. 30:54Resources
10. 31:12Service Objects
11. 32:17Service
12. 33:16Service Object
13. 35:58Follow the rules
14. 37:08Refactoring
15. 38:12Meta professionals

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