/Advanced-Ruby-3-Day-Class

Primary LanguageRuby

DSL Example: https://github.com/ultrasaurus/pie http://www.slideshare.net/sarah.allen/the-making-of-pie

Katas: http://katas.softwarecraftsmanship.org/ http://codekata.com/kata/kata06-anagrams/ https://projecteuler.net/problem=1

Ruby_Call_Chain_and_Method_Missing

  • from instance all the way up to BasicObject
  • The changing face of self
    • class vs instance methods
    • the scope of self
  • How methods are called dynamically
    • the magic of MethodMissing
  • Inheritance
  • structure
  • method dispatch
  • public, protected, private
    • breaking the rules with .send
  • delegation patterns in Ruby
    • MethodMissing
    • StdLib: Forwardable
  • method call chains

Inheritance

  • Monster Academy
    • build a small menagerie of creatures that inherit from 2 or 3 base classes

Modules

Ducks_and_Monkeys

Blocks

Blocks, Closures, Lambdas, Procs

  • Ruby's syntax and implementation
  • blocks as closures
  • .yield
  • self.yield
  • .tap
  • Symbol#to_proc (&:name)

Enumerable

  • re-implement Enumerable

DSL

Meta_Programming

  • Object lifestyle methods
    • methods_added
    • methods_removed
    • methods_undefined
  • Decoupling code using inherited to keep track of subclasses
  • Using method_missing to create magic methods
  • Applying const_missing in both global and localized situations
  • Common mistakes to avoid when metaprogramming (best practices)

Concurrency_and_MultiThreading

  • A brief introduction to the available VMs
    • MRI, JRuby, Rubinius
    • Migrating between VMs - advantages and pitfalls
  • Primitives - Threads and Mutexes and Fibers
  • Advanced models via concurrent-ruby gem

Development_Practice

  • Ruby best practices
    • idioms
    • Ruby and the SOLID principles of Object-Oriented Design

Instrumentation

  • When it all goes sideways
    • Benchmark
    • pry
    • deep debugging and profiling
  • code style
    • Rubocop
    • code metrics tools
      • Flog, Flay, Turbulence, Reek, SimpleCov, etc

Ruby_Ecosystem

  • Continuous Integration & Deployment
    • Jenkins workflow
    • Capistrano
  • Rubygems, bundler, and how to avoid shifting dependencies
    • How to tell if you can rely on a given Ruby gem
  • Ruby-specific features and extensions for Sublime Text and Ruby Mine