Rubyisms in Rails (Digital Short Cut)

by Jacob Harris

Overview

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Rubyisms is an examination of how the style of Ruby informs the design of Rails. In particular, it looks at a few specific examples of how Rails' internal code is implemented in Ruby to instruct about Ruby's design principles. The main goal is simply aesthetic appreciation. But, if you are a beginning programmer in Rails who is stymied in your understanding of Ruby–or an intermediate Rails developer still writing code that looks like Ruby-tinged PHP or Java–this Short Cut will hopefully impart enlightenment and inspiration about the Ruby way of programming. It also reveals how the revolutionary design of the Rails framework can only be built upon the beauty of Ruby.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132701884
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	54
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jacob Harris is a web developer and a frequent presence at the New York City Ruby and Rails User Group, where he originally developed this Shortcut’s topic as a presentation. Although Jake's been working with websites for a long time–he was a webmaster for one of the first 100 web servers while a student at MIT–he is a relative newcomer to the worlds of Ruby and Rails. After spending eight years at a startup in the financial sector, he now works for New York Times Digital. He also maintains a blog at http://www.nimblecode.com/.

Table of Contents

The Philosophy of Ruby

Objects, Classes, and Modules

Duck Typing

Symbols

Blocks

Metaprogramming

    Reflection

    Message Sending

    Method Missing

Domain-Specific Languages

Conclusion