Ruby metaprogramming online tutorial [closed]

Answer 1

If you are prepared to outlay a little cash, then The Pragmatic Programmers website has an excellent screencast series on the Ruby Object Model and metaprogramming. It's not very expensive and is a very comprehensive series that goes over a lot of cool stuff and worth every cent.

I need to watch it again to try and get my head around some of the concepts, then I can be one of the cool meta crowd :)

Answer 2

The above article does refer to this but I'll post it for clarity: http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/seeingMetaclassesClearly.html

Answer 3

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Code School. Their "Ruby Bits Part 2" course follows material similar to the second half of the excellent book "Eloquent Ruby.", with a nice set of interactive tests to help drill the material into you.

Link: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/ruby-bits-part-2

Levels:

1. Blocks, Procs, & Lambdas
2. Dynamic Classes & Methods
3. Understanding Self
4. Missing Methods 5 & 6. DSLs

It does cost $20 a month for a subscription (for which you also get access to all of their other courses), but for me it was totally worth it.

Answer 4

You can take a look at http://rubymonk.com/learning/books/2-metaprogramming-in-ruby - it's the second free book on programming in Ruby that we've release on RubyMonk.com.

Answer 5

These 2 books should get you going...

"The Ruby Programming Language" by Matz and Flanagan.

"Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros" by Paolo Perrota

Answer 6

This link explains various concepts(singleton,dynamic programming etc) of Ruby metaprogramming in a very systemetic manner.

http://ruby-metaprogramming.rubylearning.com/