Ruby Metaprogramming Study Note

I'm now taking a sniff of Ruby Metaprogramming. This is my tiny Study Note. :)
Aug. 22st, 2009 by ashbb (Satoshi Asakawa)

Videos

1. MetaProgramming - Extending Ruby for Fun and Profit - free

2. The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming: Episode 1-7 - bought

3. The Ruby Object Model - free
   Presentation of the Scotland on Rails conference 2009, by Dave Thomas

Books

1. The Ruby Programming Language, Chapter 8: Reflection and Metaprogramming

2. Programming Ruby, Chapter 24: Metaprogramming

3. The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Part 3: Ruby dynamics

4. The Book Of Ruby, Chapter 20: Dynamic Programming

5. Ruby Best Practices, Chapter 3: Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit

6. Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta, Super Highly Recommend!!

Sample Apps

1. cold-sky-27
   A simple twitter client on Heroku, written in Ruby DSL as a Sinatra app.

2. Dwemthy's Array Study Note
   _why's mini tutorial about Ruby Metaprogramming.

3. ToDoList with IRB
   A tiny sample program for the first exercise.

4. Turtle Graphics with Shoes
   Very simple Ruby DSL on Shoes.

5. An Exercise in Metaprogramming with Ruby - Study Note
   Hal Fulton's fantastic exercise.

6. Human Walking
   Using eval, instance_eval, instance_variables, instance_variable_set.

7. alias_method_chain
   Rails' fantastic magic. Refer to Metaprogramming Ruby, Chapter 7.

8. Event Checker
   Refer to Metaprogramming Ruby, Chapter 3.

Previous Exercises of Ruby Metaprogramming Course at RubyLearning

• XML generator

Interesting Articles

• Seeing Metaclasses Clearly
• Extending your include knowledge of Ruby
• Using methodmissing and respondto? to create dynamic methods
• Ola Bini's blogs on Meta programming

Small Snippets

• ss001: nested def keyword
• ss002: closure and flat scope
• ss003: class variables belong to class hierarchies

To do list

• create more sample codes
• write more contents

Let's Enjoy Ruby Metaprogramming!

:-D
ashbb