On Apr 23, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Jason Hsu, Android developer wrote: > I'm looking for examples of Ruby scripts that are long AND well-written. > > I have a Ruby script for scraping information on stock ETFs and mutual funds > and storing the data in a Postgres database at > https://github.com/jhsu802701/bsf-scrape/blob/master/scrape.rb . While I > need to make some minor changes to it (like providing external options to > choose between the long and short version, as the "Enter blahblahblah within > 20 seconds" approach doesn't work in a cron job), I know I need to make one > major change: making the script better-written. > > Substantial parts of my script are cobbled together from examples of code for > performing various tasks. (I'm quite new to Ruby.) I know that my script is > far from optimal. What long Ruby scripts are considered to be the gold > standards in Ruby style and techniques?
Long scripts may be the entire problem right there. A lot of the "masterful" Ruby I have seen is really brief, not long at all. If a method takes more than a handful of lines, it gets refactored into two or more shorter methods, these get organized into sensibly-designed classes, and no single script gets responsibility for more than one thing. I am in no way qualified to write like this, but I have seen it enough times to know that it's what I should be reaching for in my own work. Open up @tenderlove's CSSPool project, which parses CSS into Ruby objects. It's pretty hard to find a method more than 4 lines long anywhere within it. Walter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/SUsbmVAVbR8J. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
