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2009 April Meeting of the NH Ruby Group:

http://nhruby.org/2009/4/3/april-mee...

State Machines are a useful design pattern in any language, and in Ruby they are super easy to implement. State_Machine and Acts_As_State_Machine (AASM) both help ease the pain of implementation and provide some amazing features.

In this presentation, I’ll cover some basic aspects of the pattern and talk a bit about both plugins. I’ll also demonstrate where state machines were useful in my own applications, and some of the cool things you can do with them.