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It's always important to keep your ActiveRecord models in tip-top shape. Ben Hughes explores several techniques for refactoring models and preventing them from getting out of hand. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Learn how to refactor a set of conditional Active Record queries using a Dynamic Delegator.

Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code.

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.

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. This is also known as the presenter pattern.

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

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

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

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.

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.