refactoring episodes

Learn how to clean up your code through refactoring. This episode will show you how to move code from the view into the model to remove duplication and simplify the view.

Testing and refactoring go hand in hand. Refactoring is all about improving code without changing its behavior. Testing is all about making sure you don't change the behavior while you are improving the code.

In the final part of this series you will see how to refactor your tests. Keeping tests clean is important because it will make testing easier to do in the future.

If you are like me, you avoid creating page titles because it is kind of a pain. But in this episode I will show you a clean way to add titles to your pages.

This episode starts off with a big, messy template. Watch as this code shrinks and becomes more readable while the interface stays the same.

In this episode I walk you through an exercise in refactoring by taking a long method and making it more concise.

How do you handle partials which have differences depending on the action which is rendering them? Here's three suggestions for this problem.

If you have complex view logic, this can easily lead to helper methods which call each other. See how to refactor this out into another object in this episode.

Sometimes you need to display an administrative announcement to every page on the site and give the users the ability to hide the announcement. See how in this episode.