Ruby for your two internal programmers
summary
Claims that Ruby lets quick-and-dirty hacking and careful design coexist, and demonstrates it with concrete idioms: file iteration and printing as natural one-liners, a compact Gang of Four proxy implementation, and a comparison of case statements vs a factory object. Recommends starting with fast prototypes guarded by a test suite, then refactoring into clearer objects, and notes a real product — a Web Clipper for iPad featured on the Evernote app store — as evidence this balance scales.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 3:22SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
- 4:30ISLA MOCHA
- 4:53MOCHA DICK
- 8:32THE HACKER YEARS
- 10:31THE LEARNING YEARS
- 14:55THINKER
- 16:23EXPRESS YOURSELF
- 17:00HIDDEN TRUTH
- 17:58THE PATH
- 20:24EXAMPLE
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