Comments on: Ruby as the Joker http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388 Searching for Byzantine failures in the world around us Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jill http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-351 Jill Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:18:40 +0000 http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388#comment-351 Chris - I have a question for you regarding your feedback about the book. If you could contact me, that would be great! Chris – I have a question for you regarding your feedback about the book. If you could contact me, that would be great!

]]> By: Max Ogden http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-347 Max Ogden Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:58:26 +0000 http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388#comment-347 Gregory Brown's 'Ruby Best Practices' (O'Reilly) has a few great chapters regarding Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities as well as some well grounded real world examples for each method. Highly recommended. Gregory Brown’s ‘Ruby Best Practices’ (O’Reilly) has a few great chapters regarding Ruby’s metaprogramming capabilities as well as some well grounded real world examples for each method. Highly recommended.

]]> By: chris http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-345 chris Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:54:42 +0000 http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388#comment-345 @Brian: It's something I've been meaning to check up on but will surely get to one of these days. @taelor: Yes, writing an ORM has been something that's been nitpicking at me for a while now that I thought would be really cool to do. I'll have to give it a try! @Brian: It’s something I’ve been meaning to check up on but will surely get to one of these days.

@taelor: Yes, writing an ORM has been something that’s been nitpicking at me for a while now that I thought would be really cool to do. I’ll have to give it a try!

]]> By: taelor http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-344 taelor Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:34:23 +0000 http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388#comment-344 "I’ve also had a lot of trouble finding a good way to pick up these metaprogramming techniques" while I don't want to take away from the great book, try writing your own ORM. you will be forced to learn a ton of meta skills. Also, try checking out the DataMapper code, lots of good stuff inside there. “I’ve also had a lot of trouble finding a good way to pick up these metaprogramming techniques”

while I don’t want to take away from the great book, try writing your own ORM. you will be forced to learn a ton of meta skills. Also, try checking out the DataMapper code, lots of good stuff inside there.

]]> By: Brian Cardarella http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388&cpage=1#comment-343 Brian Cardarella Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:46:03 +0000 http://www.byzantinereality.com/?p=388#comment-343 You may want to also check out Dave Thomas' Metaprogramming scrrecadt series on progprag.com It is about 4 hours long but really good. You may want to also check out Dave Thomas’ Metaprogramming scrrecadt series on progprag.com It is about 4 hours long but really good.

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