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Clean Ruby

A Guide to Crafting Better Code for Rubyists

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Carleton DiLeo

    1. Boulder, USA

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  • The first book on clean coding for Ruby developers

  • Create more straightforward methods to increase productivity

  • Written by an active practicing Ruby code developer and game programmer

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Qualities of Clean Code

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 1-8

  3. Naming Things

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 9-32

  4. Creating Quality Methods

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 33-54

  5. Using Boolean Logic

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 55-71

  6. Classes

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 73-90

  7. Refactoring

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 91-99

  8. Test-Driven Development (TDD)

    • Carleton DiLeo
    Pages 101-108

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 109-113
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About this book

Learn how to make better decisions and write cleaner Ruby code. This book shows you how to avoid messy code that is hard to test and which cripples productivity. Author Carleton DiLeo shares hard-learned lessons gained from years of experience across numerous codebases both large and small. Each chapter covers the topics you need to know to make better decisions and optimize your productivity. Many books will tell you how to do something; this book will tell you why you should do it. Start writing code you love. 

What You Will Learn

  • Build better classes to help promote code reuse
  • Improve your decision making and make better, smarter choices
  • Identify bad code and fixed it
  • Create quality names for all of your variables, classes, and modules
  • Write better, concise classes
  • Improve the quality of your methods
  • Properly use modules
  • Clarify your Boolean logic
  • See when and how you refactor
  • Improve your understanding of TDD and write better tests

Who This Book Is For


This book is written for Ruby developers. There is no need to learn a new language or translate concepts to Ruby.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Boulder, USA

    Carleton DiLeo

About the author

Carleton DiLeo has been writing code ever since he built his first computer from parts in a dumpster. He has written code from high-traffic websites to back-end big data systems for video games. This wide base of knowledge provides Carleton with a unique perspective when writing Ruby code.

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