In order to truly understand Ruby's object model, we must learn to see the singleton classes.
Tag: metaprogramming
Episode #451: Advanced Class Membership
How to check class of uncooperative, or outright dishonest Ruby objects.
Episode #450: Class Membership
What's the best way to ask a Ruby object what class it belongs to?
Episode #444: Block Inherited
Learning the rules of Ruby's inheritance callbacks, in order to do defensive metaprogramming.
Episode #439: Method Search
Introspecting Ruby to find all all implementations of a method.
Episode #265: Method Introspection with Noah Gibbs
Noah Gibbs joins us this week, to show us how we can find out all about ruby methods just by asking them.
Episode #250: Refinements
Today we tackle one of Ruby's most controversial new features. Building on the example from episode #249, we'll look at how to extend a core class with custom methods, without …
Episode #226: Evil Monkeys
In which I rant a bit about the dangers of "monkey-patching".
Episode #221: Def Return Value
Since Ruby 2.1, def returns a symbol. In this episode we'll take a look at why this matters, and how it might change the way we define methods.
Episode #182: Macro
When is it appropriate to metaprogram? Today's episode looks at one situation in which it may be a good choice.
