Ruby Metaprogramming

References/Resources

Articles

• Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

• Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self

• Using method_missing and respond_to? to create dynamic methods

• Extending your include knowledge of Ruby

• Include vs Extend in Ruby

• Ruby’s Metaprogramming Toolbox

• Ruby reflection

Videos

• The Ruby Object Model - Dave Thomas’ presentation at Scotland on Rails

• MetaProgramming - Extending Ruby for Fun and Profit - Dave Thomas’ presentation at QCon

• The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming - Series of paid screencasts from Pragmatic Programmers

Books

• Metaprogramming Ruby - Entire book

Exercises

• Metaprogramming in Ruby - Solutions

• An Exercise in Metaprogramming with Ruby