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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)

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In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite shows how to write Ruby that reads, writes, and rewrites Ruby. The demos include extending the Ruby language with conditional expressions, new forms of evaluation such as call-by-name and call-by-need, and more.

Bio

Reginald Braithwaite was the tech lead on the team that created JProbe Threadalyzer, a tool that did automatic detection of potential threading-related bugs. Shortly after that he became Program Manager for the suite of JProbe tools and then Development Manager. He is a speaker at conferences like RubyFringe and MeshU. He is author of the Invocation Construction Kit and Rewrite for Ruby.

About the conference

RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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Dec 04, 2008

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  • A few links

    by Reg Braithwaite,

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    The slides: on github and on flickr.

    And the gem: rewrite.rubyforge.org

    sudo gem install rewrite
    , or:

  • Re: A few links

    by Stefan Tilkov,

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    Really, really cool stuff.

  • nice work reg

    by tim b,

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    this talk makes me want to write ruby code again

  • Re: A few links

    by Debasish Ghosh,

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    Thanks for Rewrite .. this will change the way people think in Ruby ..

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