Metaprogramming Ruby 2

1. Metaprogramming Ruby 2 3. For the Best Reading Experience... 4. ​ 5. Table of Contents 6. What Readers Are Saying About Metaprogramming Ruby 2 7. Foreword 8. Acknowledgments 9. Introduction 10. About This Book 11. About You 12. Part 1: Metaprogramming Ruby 13. Chapter 1: The M Word 14. Ghost Towns and Marketplaces 15. The Story of Bob, Metaprogrammer 16. Metaprogramming and Ruby 17. Chapter 2: Monday: The Object Model 18. Open Classes 19. Inside the Object Model 20. Quiz: Missing Lines 21. What Happens When You Call a Method? 22. Quiz: Tangle of Modules 23. Wrap-Up 24. Chapter 3: Tuesday: Methods 25. A Duplication Problem 26. Dynamic Methods 27. method_missing 28. Quiz: Bug Hunt 29. Blank Slates 30. Wrap-Up 31. Chapter 4: Wednesday: Blocks 32. The Day of the Blocks 33. Quiz: Ruby# 34. Blocks Are Closures 35. instance_eval() 36. Callable Objects 37. Writing a Domain-Specific Language 38. Quiz: A Better DSL 39. Wrap-Up 40. Chapter 5: Thursday: Class Definitions 41. Class Definitions Demystified 42. Quiz: Class Taboo 43. Singleton Methods 44. Singleton Classes 45. Quiz: Module Trouble 46. Method Wrappers 47. Quiz: Broken Math 48. Wrap-Up 49. Chapter 6: Friday: Code That Writes Code 50. Coding Your Way to the Weekend 51. Kernel#eval 52. Quiz: Checked Attributes (Step 1) 53. Quiz: Checked Attributes (Step 2) 54. Quiz: Checked Attributes (Step 3) 55. Quiz: Checked Attributes (Step 4) 56. Hook Methods 57. Quiz: Checked Attributes (Step 5) 58. Wrap-Up 59. Chapter 7: Epilogue 60. Part 2: Metaprogramming in Rails 61. Chapter 8: Preparing for a Rails Tour 62. Ruby on Rails 63. Installing Rails 64. The Rails Source Code 65. Chapter 9: The Design of Active Record 66. A Short Active Record Example 67. How Active Record Is Put Together 68. A Lesson Learned 69. Chapter 10: Active Support’s Concern Module 70. Rails Before Concern 71. ActiveSupport::Concern 72. A Lesson Learned 73. Chapter 11: The Rise and Fall of alias_method_chain 74. The Rise of alias_method_chain 75. The Fall of alias_method_chain 76. A Lesson Learned 77. Chapter 12: The Evolution of Attribute Methods 78. Attribute Methods in Action 79. A History of Complexity 80. A Lesson Learned 81. Chapter 13: One Final Lesson 82. Metaprogramming Is Just Programming 83. Part 3: Appendixes 84. Appendix 1: Common Idioms 85. Mimic Methods 86. Nil Guards 87. Self Yield 88. Symbol#to_proc() 89. Appendix 2: Domain-Specific Languages 90. The Case for Domain-Specific Languages 91. Internal and External DSLs 92. DSLs and Metaprogramming 93. Appendix 3: Spell Book 94. The Spells 95. You May Be Interested In…