The Bike Shed

Inspired by a Slack thread, Joël invites fellow thoughtbotter Aji Slater on the show to talk about when you should use class methods and when you should avoid them. Are there particular anti-patterns to look out for? How does this fit in with good object-oriented programming? What about Rails? What is an "alternate constructor"? What about service objects? So many questions, and friends: Aji and Joël deliver answers! Backbone.js collections (https://backbonejs.org/#Model-Collections) Query object (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/a-case-for-query-objects-in-rails) Rails is a dialect (https://solnic.codes/2022/02/02/rails-and-its-ruby-dialect/) Meditations on a Class Method (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/meditations-on-a-class-method) Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring (https://codeclimate.com/blog/why-ruby-class-methods-resist-refactoring/) Transcript: JOËL: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Joël Quennev