It's been a while since I have posted on this blog. So just to let you know that I'm still alive, this is what has been keeping me occupied. It's best summed up by a quote from the book Object Thinking by David West. This is a must read for any Rails developer who is following the object-oriented Rails culture.
Patterns most useful to object thinkers should be derived from the problem domain, just as objects are. They should facilitate thinking about co-ordination and scripting of objects or about useful ways of assembling objects into components or applications. They could be considered Alexandrian patterns. Few of the patterns (about 6 of the 23) presented in the GoF book satisfy this demand. Martin Fowler’s book on Analysis Patterns presents examples derived from a domain and is much closer to Alexander’s intent than the GoF book.
My intent is to post more on Domain Patterns in a Rails context in the near future. We'll see.
