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 …
Tag: metaprogramming
Episode #566
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
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
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
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
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 #456: Singleton Class Exec
In order to truly understand Ruby's object model, we must learn to see the singleton classes.
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.