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Polished Ruby Programming

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072724

Length 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Jeremy Evans

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamental Ruby Programming Principles

2. Chapter 1: Getting the Most out of Core Classes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Useful Custom Classes

4. Chapter 3: Proper Variable Usage

5. Chapter 4: Methods and Their Arguments

6. Chapter 5: Handling Errors

7. Chapter 6: Formatting Code for Easy Reading

8. Section 2: Ruby Library Programming Principles

9. Chapter 7: Designing Your Library

10. Chapter 8: Designing for Extensibility

11. Chapter 9: Metaprogramming and When to Use It

12. Chapter 10: Designing Useful Domain-Specific Languages

13. Chapter 11: Testing to Ensure Your Code Works

14. Chapter 12: Handling Change

15. Chapter 13: Using Common Design Patterns

16. Chapter 14: Optimizing Your Library

17. Section 3: Ruby Web Programming Principles

18. Chapter 15: The Database Is Key

19. Chapter 16: Web Application Design Principles

20. Chapter 17: Robust Web Application Security

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 10: Designing Useful Domain-Specific Languages

Ruby makes it easy to implement domain-specific languages (DSLs), and many popular libraries offer DSLs to improve their usability.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to design and implement a DSL, which problems are handled well by DSLs, and both the advantages and disadvantages of using DSLs in your libraries.

We will cover the following topics:

Designing your DSL
Implementing your DSL
Learning when to use a DSL

By the end of the chapter, you'll have a better understanding of not only how to design a DSL, but why it may or may not be a good idea to do so.

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Authors (1)

Evans

Evans

Jeremy Evans is a Ruby committer who focuses on fixing bugs in Ruby, as well as improving the implementation of Ruby. He is the maintainer of many popular Ruby libraries, including the fastest web framework (Roda) and fastest database library (Sequel). His libraries are known not just for their performance, but also for their code quality, understandability, documentation, and how quickly any bugs found are fixed. For his contributions to Ruby and the Ruby community, he has received multiple awards, such as receiving the prestigious RubyPrize in 2020 and being chosen as a Ruby Hero in 2015. He has given presentations at over 20 Ruby conferences. In addition to working on Ruby, he is also a committer for the OpenBSD operating system.

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