Ruby Reloaded with Peter Cooper

WEB-Rip | MOV | AVC1 @ 500 Kbit/s | 1280x720 | AAC Stereo @ 128 Kbit/s 44 KHz | 20 Hours | 3.55 GB

Genre: Web Development, Ruby Programming | Language: English

Do you want to boost your confidence about how Ruby works? Did you learn Ruby 'on the job' and miss out on the details? Are you a Rails developer who wants to get under the hood a bit more? If you understand at least the basics of Ruby and want to progress further with guidance, Ruby Reloaded is for you!

What's covered

The Ruby ecosystem and its history

Building a Ruby library (and gem) from scratch

Key differences between Ruby 1.8 and 1.9

TDD (Test Driven Development) from first principles

How to use Test::Unit and MiniTest::Spec

The "Ruby object model" in depth

Modules, classes, including and extending

Procs, blocks, closures and lambdas — and how they're all useful

Building a Web service using Sinatra

Idiomatic Ruby techniques and Ruby code style

Metaprogramming and how to implement a DSL

Enumerable and its powers

Core data structures like Arrays, Hashes, Strings, and Symbols - with approaches, techniques, and syntax you might not have encountered before

How to effectively "code walk" and analyze existing Ruby code to learn useful new techniques

A regular expressions primer — why are they useful and how can you use them well

Lots of "oh, nice!" tips and tricks along the way