To help myself learn more about Ruby, I'm starting to translate
chapter 1 of Refactoring [Fowler99] from java into ruby.  I've
finished the first several rounds of refacotring but before I went any
further, I wanted to see if there was anything obviously with the code
I was putting together.  (Obviously, some of the mistakes are
intentional -- I even had to go back and re-introduce some because
Martin cleaned them up in later examples.)

If you'd take a look at the code and let me know, I'd appreciate it.

http://pate.networkinglinuxbook.com/refactoringInRuby.tgz contains
this file and all of the code.  The files correspond to [Fowler99] as
follows:
    videostore.rb.orig             pp 3-5   (the original code)
    testVideoStore.rb.first	    --      (an initial runit set of tests)
    videostore.rb.refactor1	   p 11	    (Extract Method)
    videostore.rb.refactor1.fixed  p 12	    (clean up braino)
    videostore.rb.refactor2	   p 15	    (rename variables)
    videostore.rb.refactor3	   p 17	    (Move Method)
    videostore.rb.refactor4	   p 19	    (clean up after Move)
    videostore.rb.refactor5	   p 21	    (Replace Temp with Query)
    videostore.rb.refactor6	   p 23	    (Extract Method)
    videostore.rb.refactor7	   p 27	    (Replace Temp with Query)
    videostore.rb.refactor8	   p 29	    (Replace Temp with Query)
    testVideoStore.rb               --	    (add tests for html statement)
    videostore.rb		    --	    (new functionality added)



(Martin, this isn't ready to be linked to yet, but I'd love to hear your
ideas as well.)

thanks,
-pate