As Edd Dumbill wrote, "the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour." It's true that some of the best things about Ruby aren't obvious to newcomers. In this talk Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love.
Watch The Beauty of Ruby (54 min)
The beauty points Glenn looks at are:
Watch The Beauty of Ruby (54 min)
The beauty points Glenn looks at are:
- Blocks
- Rich Yet Flexible Syntax
- Mixins
- Lisp-Y-ness
- Generalized Matching & Ruby's powerful case statement
- Classes and objects are "open" can be modified at runtime
- Metaprogramming features