davidbella

class Person
  def initialize(attributes)
    attributes.each do |attribute_name, attribute_value|
      ##### Method one #####
      # Works just great, but uses something scary like eval
      # self.class.class_eval {attr_accessor attribute_name}
      # self.instance_variable_set("@#{attribute_name}", attribute_value)

      ##### Method two #####
      # Manually creates methods for both getter and setter and then 

sdball

Sandi Metz’ rules for developers

1. Your class can be no longer than a hundred lines of code.
2. Your methods can be no longer than five lines of code
3. You can pass no more than four parameters and you can't just make it one big hash.
4. In your controller, you can only instantiate one object, to do whatever it is that needs to be done.
5. Your view can only know about one instance variable.
6. Your Rails view should only send messages to that object i.e., no Demeter violations.[ "thunder dome principal". Translated: one model in, one model out! ]
7. Rules are meant to be broken if by breaking them you produce better code. [ ...where "better code" is validated by explaining why you want to break the rule to someone else. ]