"Tales from the Ruby Grimoire"

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Shows concrete hacks: implements placeholder arguments via operator overloading returning procs, pulls block parameter names with Proc#parameters to build a destructuring helper that calls a block with object values, and prototypes lenses by combining dig with a cloning deep_set routine to update nested hashes without mutation. Mentions numbered arguments landing in Ruby 2.7 and that some of the live code runs in production, and bizarrely notes 12 lemurs 62 illustrations 156 slides in the deck.

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" chapters (11)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:06Who is Brandon
3. 2:18Young Red
4. 6:50The Grimoire
5. 7:27The Lemurs
6. 12:33Dark Magics
7. 13:18Destructuring
8. 18:59Evil
9. 20:18Lenses
10. 27:48Beyond Magic
11. 29:28Dangerous Book

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