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Bozhidar Batsov
June 07, 2016
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The Master Rubyist
Slide deck from my RubyC 2016 presentation.
Bozhidar Batsov
June 07, 2016
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Transcript
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Божидар
@bbatsov
I’m back
epic fail
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Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata, ain't no
passing craze It means no worries for the rest of your days It's our problem free philosophy, Hakuna Matata
They call me Master…
… and I’m a Rubyist
I must be The Master Rubyist!
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Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tarnovo, Bulgaria
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Dashingly handsome
Sings like an angel
Loves karaoke
Is very responsible
Was very responsible last night
Loves beer
Loves scotch
Loves vodka
Terrified by gorilka
Loves Ruby
Loves Ruby
Loves Ruby
Loves Ruby
Uses tabs instead of spaces
Uses vim
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Emacs fanatic
Star Wars fanatic
Batman
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Loves OSS
Does some OSS development
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On the core team of some projects
Works for a famous company
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Loved by his team
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Loved by his team
The Master Rubyist D[$Q\JKFCT$CVUQX
Master
having or showing very great skill or proficiency
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Novice
a person new to and inexperienced in a job or
situation
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Journeyman
a worker, performer, or athlete who is experienced and good
but not excellent
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The Road to Mastery
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not really
try 10 years
http://norvig.com/21- days.html Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years Peter Norvig
Apprenticeship
Novice Journeyman Master Apprenticeship Apprenticeship
Object-oriented programming
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Ruby is a purely object- oriented language
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Know Thy Language!
Crazy People
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Ruby is a VERY COMPLEX language!
class instance variable
protected
module_function vs extend self
refinements
super vs super()
== === equal? eql?
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Grokking the language
Understanding and appreciating its philosophy
Coming to grips with reality
(no language is perfect)
(not even Clojure)
(some languages really suck)
Master the idioms
for i in 1..3 puts "Hello, Kiev!" end
3.times do puts "Hello, Kiev!" end
if some_condition then # body omitted end
def some_method # ... return result end
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Read some (good) code
some == A LOT
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Obtain a notion of style
A style guide • a curated set of (supposedly) good
practices • spares you the process of making trivial decisions • allows you to focus on the actual problems • simple and concise
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Use the active voice.
My first visit to Kiev will always be remembered by
me. lame
I shall always remember my first visit to Kiev. legit
The word personally is often unnecessary.
Personally, I love RubyC.
Style guides aren’t a replacement for thinking
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Write clearly -- don't be too clever.
def user_signed_in? !!@current_user end def user_signed_in? !@current_user.nil? end
Don't sacrifice clarity for small gains in efficiency.
i = 1 res = 0 while i <= 10
res += i i += 1 end
(1..10).reduce(:+)
(N * (N + 1)) / 2
(10 * (10 + 1)) / 2
Ruby Style Guide https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide
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Tackle problems with style
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puts debugging sucks
bla bla bla puts ‘********’ puts x puts ‘********’
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pro “puts” debugging techniques
object = Object.new puts object.method(:blank?).source_location # => ["/gems/ activesupport-5.0.0.beta1/lib/ active_support/core_ext/object/
blank.rb", 14]
class Bar def foo puts "=====================" puts caller end end
def foo puts method(:foo).super_method.source_location super end
def parse(input, skip_code_comments: false, ignore_whitespace: true) # do stuff end
method(:parse).parameters #=> [[:req, :input], [:key, :skip_code_comments], [:key, :ignore_whitespace]]
config.thing = { "foo" => "bar" } config.thing.freeze = {
"foo" => "bar" } config.thing.delete("foo") # active_support/concurrency/share_lock.rb:151:in `delete': can't modify frozen Hash (RuntimeError) # from active_support/concurrency/share_lock.rb:151:in `yield_shares' # from active_support/concurrency/share_lock.rb:79:in `block in stop_exclusive'
Ruby Debugging Magic Cheat Sheet http://www.schneems.com/2016/01/25/ruby-debugging- magic-cheat-sheet.html
I am a puts debugger https://tenderlovemaking.com/2016/02/05/i-am-a-puts- debuggerer.html
I am not a puts debugger!
byebug https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug
pry-byebug https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug
Profiling stuff
ruby-prof https://github.com/ruby-prof/ruby-prof
memory_profiler https://github.com/SamSaffron/memory_profiler
The Editors
Emacs
vim
Spacemacs
What about the rest?
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Emacs & vim are forever!
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Interactive programming
The REPL is king!
pry > irb
Rails
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Beyond Rails
Opal
RubyMotion
System administration
JRuby
Alternative web frameworks
Volt
Hanami
Padrino
Sinatra
Roda
Keep in sync
RubyWeekly
Ruby5
RubyRogues
RubyTapas
GoRails
RubyConf
RailsConf
Always be exploring!
Clojure
Haskell
Elm
Erlang/Elixir
Racket
Ideas from other programming languages make us better programmers
One more thing…
Ruby is simply not a good fit for every possible
problem
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Felina