# AED Rule 2 — Name the thing; don't make the reader decode a chain # # Context: an OAuth callback verifying the `state` parameter against the value # issued at the start of the flow. This is security-critical code — exactly # where a reader (human or agent) must be able to verify intent at a glance. # ── BEFORE ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Terse, but the reader has to hold three operations in their head at once: # a nilable session lookup, a block binding, and a comparison — all inside a # negated guard. # # return unless session["oauth_state"]?.try { |s| constant_time_equal?(s, state) } # ── AFTER (AED) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Naming the intermediate turns the same logic into two plain statements: # "this is the state we expected; refuse unless it exists and matches." # # Minimal stand-ins for the session store and comparison helper this snippet # was excerpted from, so the file compiles standalone: def constant_time_equal?(a : String, b : String) : Bool return false if a.bytesize != b.bytesize mismatch = 0 a.bytes.each_with_index { |byte, i| mismatch |= byte ^ b.bytes[i] } mismatch == 0 end def verify_oauth_callback(session : Hash(String, String), state : String) : Nil expected_state = session["oauth_state"]? return unless expected_state && constant_time_equal?(expected_state, state) end