.NET Core

Refactor This: The Gilded Rose Kata for .NET Core

Bobby Johnson

Jul 20, 2016 • 2 min read

Background

Back in 2011, Terry Huges and I attended the Software Craftsmanship North America conference in Chicago. We came back excited about what we had learned and out of that excitement was born The Gilded Rose Kata.

It has been adapted to many different languages; Ruby, C++, go, python just to name a few. It was included in Emily Bache's amazing book The Coding Dojo Handbook. And many people have recorded screencasts of themselves solving the kata with different approaches. In a typical month I see at least one to two forks of my original repository. It is by far the most popular thing I have ever put up on GitHub.

With the recent release of .NET Core, I wanted to adapt the kata to the new platform and release it into the wild. The source is available on GitHub and is released under the MIT license.

My hope is that it will help a new generation of developers get up and running quickly writing C#. It is truly a great language that no longer requires Visual Studio or Windows.

Getting Started

Install .NET Core SDK 1.0.
Install Visual Studio Code, the Insiders Edition is highly recommended.
Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/NotMyself/GildedRoseCore.git.
Restore packages: ./script/restore.
Run Console Application: ./script/run.
Run Unit Tests: ./script/test.

If you see output similar to the following screenshots, you are ready to start refactoring. Note: For windows users ensure you download the SDK, it is not the first link on the page.