convore.json/groups/ruby/how-do-you-feel-about-fluent-builder-interfaces/messages.json

[{"user_id": 3611, "stars": [], "topic_id": 46426, "date_created": 1318337503.1354389, "message": "Fluent-builder interfaces are things like arel (AR scopes), jQuery's method-chaining style. The idea is that every method call returns self or some other object that is gradually built up through the course of the method calls.  Does this help your code feel more clear or does it uglify things?", "group_id": 109, "id": 2324659}, {"user_id": 1516, "stars": [], "topic_id": 46426, "date_created": 1318338019.2865231, "message": "See also: Closure \u2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(mathematics)", "group_id": 109, "id": 2324684}, {"user_id": 3611, "stars": [], "topic_id": 46426, "date_created": 1318338716.5573311, "message": "@mrb_bk said on twitter, \"That's implementation specific for me. In any case the API needs to be powerful without necessary chaining IMO.\"", "group_id": 109, "id": 2324716}, {"user_id": 3611, "stars": [], "topic_id": 46426, "date_created": 1318338693.0226209, "message": "@moonmaster9000 said on twitter, \"they're a handy abstraction when building an object via callbacks (e.g., before filters). facilitates separation of concerns.\"", "group_id": 109, "id": 2324715}, {"user_id": 1516, "stars": [], "topic_id": 46426, "date_created": 1318339087.4042649, "message": "totally depends on the context. it's pretty obvious in ARel because relational algebra is closed under the operations.", "group_id": 109, "id": 2324754}]