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Your class can be no longer than a hundred lines of code.
Your methods can be no longer than five lines of code
You can pass no more than four parameters and you can't just make it one big hash.
In your controller, you can only instantiate one object, to do whatever it is that needs to be done.
Your view can only know about one instance variable.
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! ]
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. ]

	class NilWhatAreYouDoingStahp
	attr_accessor :not_nil

	def initialize
	@not_nil = "I'm not nil! I'm a value!"
	end

	def wat
	if not_nil.nil?
	not_nil = "Ok, now I'm not nil."

	<?php
	// page setup
	require('/www/includes/ipdatabase/ipdb_page.php');

	$javascript = '<script type="text/javascript" src="/ipdatabase/js/index.js"></script>';

	$page = new IPDB_Page();
	$page->title('Main');
	$page->javascript($javascript);

	<?php
	/**
	* ezproxy_redirect
	*
	* EZProxy requires that the username and password be passed via GET.
	* This is just about as insecure as possible.
	*
	* So, we trick ezproxy into security by opening a socket connection
	* to the server; acting as a browser to initiate the connection; then
	* writing out its response to the actual browser.

	require 'minitest/spec'
	require 'minitest/autorun'

	class String
	def one_time_override(method, &override)
	self.instance_eval do
	def to_s
	self.instance_eval do
	def to_s
	'foo'

	# drop this task in the environment(s) you want to confirm deployment for

	before :deploy, "deploy:confirm"

	namespace :deploy do
	desc "Should we really deploy?"
	task :confirm do
	if Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask("Are you sure?") == "yes"
	puts "You got it buddy. Imma deploy now."
	else