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MetaProgramming - Extending Ruby for Fun and Profit

Presented by Dave Thomas on Dec 07, 2007

Community
Ruby
Topics
Programming ,
Ruby on Rails
Tags
Language Features ,
Qcon London 2007 ,
Ruby on Rails ,
Metaprogramming
Summary
Ever wonder just how Rails declarations such as "has many" and "belongs_to" work? Ever wished you could write your own code that worked the same way? It turns out that this style of programming, often called metaprogramming, is easier than you might think. In this talk we'll see how Ruby's open classes, compile-time execution, and full meta-object model make it easy to write your own extensions.

Bio
Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software--accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community. The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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This is cool!!! by Jure http://blog.regulus.si Posted Dec 18, 2007 9:02 PM
eph by Andrei Zinca Posted Dec 19, 2007 3:55 PM
problems by jimmy coyne Posted Dec 20, 2007 10:24 AM
Re: problems by Sean Cribbs Posted Dec 22, 2007 11:58 AM
Re: problems by johan andries Posted Dec 28, 2007 3:00 AM
able to download this? by Hrafn Nordhri Posted Nov 5, 2009 12:58 PM
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    This is cool!!!

    Dec 18, 2007 9:02 PM by Jure http://blog.regulus.si

    Tnx. It would be really nice if more Ruby presentations like this would be available.

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    eph

    Dec 19, 2007 3:55 PM by Andrei Zinca

    An otherwise good presentation ruined by an awful, macabre joke.

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    problems

    Dec 20, 2007 10:24 AM by jimmy coyne

    Is any body else having problems viewing this presentation?

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    Re: problems

    Dec 22, 2007 11:58 AM by Sean Cribbs

    +1

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    Re: problems

    Dec 28, 2007 3:00 AM by johan andries

    On Windows, for me it works in IE but not in FireFox.

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    able to download this?

    Nov 5, 2009 12:58 PM by Hrafn Nordhri

    Are we able to download this?

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