http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/ We’ll take you on a journey along the coast of Ruby, where we try to uncover gems between the driftwood and seaweed while we steer clear of the word ‘metaprogramming’ with great dexterity. en Sun, 04 May 2008 11:57:41 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/icon.png http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/ Fingertips We’ll take you on a journey along the coast of Ruby, where we try to uncover gems between the driftwood and seaweed while we steer clear of the word ‘metaprogramming’ with great dexterity. no Thijs van der Vossen thijs@fngtps.com no Manfred answers some questions from our viewers about last week’s episode where Eloy defined a method called ‘Object’. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/011/ Sun, 04 May 2008 11:05:10 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/011/rubybanter011.m4v Fingertips Manfred answers some questions from our viewers about last week’s episode where Eloy defined a method called ‘Object’. no 3:42 Eloy shows how to set up a class with default attributes in a single line of code. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/010/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:04:25 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/010/rubybanter010.m4v Fingertips Eloy shows how to set up a class with default attributes in a single line of code. no 5:26 In Smalltalk code and data are always kept together. In Ruby this isn’t the case. Manfred looks at a poor man’s version of keeping your data with your code. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/009/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:04:04 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/009/rubybanter009.m4v Fingertips In Smalltalk code and data are always kept together. In Ruby this isn’t the case. Manfred looks at a poor man’s version of keeping your data with your code. no 10:14 Ruby has dedicated keywords like if and else to define conditional logic. Other languages, like IO, use methods for conditional execution of code. Manfred shows how you can use a class in Ruby to do something similar. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/008/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:03:08 +0100 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2008/008/rubybanter008.m4v Fingertips Ruby has dedicated keywords like if and else to define conditional logic. Other languages, like IO, use methods for conditional execution of code. Manfred shows how you can use a class in Ruby to do something similar. no 8:11 Sam wonders whether Ruby and Rails are really ready for the Enterprise. In this episode Manfred answers this burning question and shows how you can make Ruby feel like Java. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/007/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:12:40 +0100 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/007/rubybanter007.m4v Fingertips Sam wonders whether Ruby and Rails are really ready for the Enterprise. In this episode Manfred answers this burning question and shows how you can make Ruby feel like Java. no 3:00 This episode shows some syntactic improvements on the Function Composition code we demonstrated in the first video of the series. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/006/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:10:03 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/006/rubybanter006.m4v Fingertips This episode shows some syntactic improvements on the Function Composition code we demonstrated in the first video of the series. no 5:25 The Case Equality, Treequal or Equaal operator, however you want to call it, allows us to match objects in a more meaningful manner than plain equality. In this episode Manfred shows how you can override the method on your own classes to do advanced matching. Please note that, although Manfred thinks he’s implementing the disjoint set of markers, he’s actually implementing the union. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/005/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:09:08 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/005/rubybanter005.m4v Fingertips The Case Equality, Treequal or Equaal operator, however you want to call it, allows us to match objects in a more meaningful manner than plain equality. In this episode Manfred shows how you can override the method on your own classes to do advanced matching. Please note that, although Manfred thinks he’s implementing the disjoint set of markers, he’s actually implementing the union. no 8:00 Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows a Ruby implementation of memoization and how you can use it. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/004/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/004/rubybanter004.m4v Fingertips Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows a Ruby implementation of memoization and how you can use it. no 4:52 In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In this episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/003/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:06:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/003/rubybanter003.m4v Fingertips In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In this episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works. no 4:27 The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by defining the boat operator. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/002/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:04:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/002/rubybanter002.m4v Fingertips The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by defining the boat operator. no 5:19 Function composition is a common concept in functional programming languages. This first episode of ‘Ruby Banter’ shows you how to do it in Ruby. http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/001/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:34:00 +0200 http://media.fngtps.com/rubybanter/2007/001/rubybanter001.m4v Fingertips Function composition is a common concept in functional programming languages. This first episode of ‘Ruby Banter’ shows you how to do it in Ruby. no 7:49