Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths
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HN comment orderI've use Scientist for every major refactor I've done--IMO it's one of the best examples of a library that does one thing extremely well and has a clean interface.
We've used this extensively at my work and it has been great. As someone else pointed out it's a bit tricky if the code isn't idempotent. We used this as part of a data migration project and for writing we ran the experiment 100% of the time and read back the result to check it was correct - a bit of a performance impact but nothing that was noticeable. One super useful extension we've made to the gem is to…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-24 | GitHub/scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths | kiyanwang | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-01-07 | A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths | vinnyglennon | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-11-09 | Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical pathsFirst breakout · Best thread | kburman | 178 | 19 |
| 2022-10-18 | Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths | mooreds | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-11-14 | Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical pathsLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 154 | 15 |