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Polished Ruby Programming

You're reading from   Polished Ruby Programming Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072724
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Implementing your DSL

One of the best aspects of Ruby is how easy Ruby makes it to implement a DSL. After programmer friendliness, probably the main reason you see so many DSLs in Ruby is the simplicity of implementation. There are a few different DSL types you learned about in the previous sections, and you'll learn how to implement each in this section.

The first type is the most basic type, where the DSL method accepts a block that is yielded as an object, and you call methods on the yielded object. For example, the RSpec configuration example could be implemented as follows:

def RSpec.configure
  yield RSpec::Core::Configuration.new
end

In this case, the configuration is global and always affects the RSpec constant, so the RSpec::Configuration instance may not even need a reference to the receiver.

For the Foo.process_bars example given previously, assuming the ProcessBarCommand uses the add_bar method and the DSL uses the simpler bar method, you need...

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