Language features, syntax, and gotchas.
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Episode #589
Mixed Argument Struct
Ruby is all about giving coders choices. What if you could give users of your code the choice between positional or keyword arguments, or some mix of the two? Let's …
Episode #588
Keyword Argument Struct
The quickness and convenience of Ruby Struct with the expressiveness of keyword arguments? Learn how to make the most of this relatively recent Ruby addition.
Episode #566
Dynamic Understanding of Dynamic Systems
Ruby's open core classes can be modified at any time by any code you load. But this dynamism can work for you as well. Join guest Paul Stefan Ort for …
Episode #565
Parameter Destructuring
Learn about Ruby's method introspection features while re-creating JavaScript's parameter destructuring. Join guest chef Brandon Weaver for this mind- and language-expanding episode!
Episode #563
Explore and Extend – Part 2
Ruby's open classes are both powerful, and a fertile ground for creating technical debt. In part 2 of 2, rejoin guest chef Jordan Raine to discover how to responsibly monkey-patch …
Episode #562
Explore and Extend – Part 1
Sometimes a 3rd-party library or framework doesn't work quite the way you need. Join guest chef Jordan Raine to learn how to interactively explore library code until you find the …
Episode #561
Building a REPL
Join guest chef Adam Fernung to build a simple Ruby REPL---and in the process, learn how the Binding class enables dynamic reflection of the current variable scope!
Episode #558
yield_self
Discover how to use Ruby's yield_self/then method to organize methods into neat pipelines of operations! Join guest chef Nithin Bekal for an educational and satisfying refactoring sequence.
Why Ruby doesn’t have a Boolean class
One peculiarity of Ruby that trips up a lot of programmers migrating from other languages is the fact that while it has true and false types, they don't share a …