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Bozhidar Batsov
September 23, 2017
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The Road to Ruby Mastery (RailsClub Moscow 2017)
Slide-deck from my presentation at RailsClub Moscow 2017.
Bozhidar Batsov
September 23, 2017
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Божидар
I’m back
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Большое спасибо!
Большое спасибо!
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria
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I’m an Emacs fanatic
bbatsov
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They call me Master…
… and I’m a Rubyist
I must be The Master Rubyist!
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This guy is so deep and profound!
The Road to Ruby Mastery by Bozhidar Batsov
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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Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
Novice Advanced Beginner Competent Proficient Expert
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
learning from others
directly
indirectly
Computer Science Fundamentals
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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, Moscow!” end
3.times do puts "Hello, Moscow!” 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
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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",
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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
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Beyond Rails
Opal
RubyMotion
System administration
JRuby
Alternative web frameworks
Hanami
Padrino
Sinatra
Roda
Keep in sync
RubyWeekly
Ruby5
RubyRogues
RubyTapas
GoRails
RailsClub
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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ФЕЛИНА
Епилог twitter: @bbatsov github: @bbatsov http//batsov.com http://emacsredux.com RailsClub Moscow, Russia
23.09.2017