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London Ruby User Group:DSL or a code smell...
DSL or a code smell...
Abdel A. Saleh recently ran a code review of a DSL he was writing at work. He's going to let us know what he learned from that experience:
DSLs are very powerful tools but are they always necessary? This is a tale in code about my work on a small 'Request Throttling' library where I thought I needed a DSL but it turned out I was sorely mistaken. I'll highlight some common DSLing techniques and the decisions that steered me away from them. Download the slides here

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