Summary: Panel Steven Harms (twitter github blog) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 02:20 - Best of Parley Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer by Andy Lindeman 03:55 - Practical metaprogramming 012 RR Metaprogramming in Ruby Practical Meta Programming Modeling Thought by Steven Harms RubyTapas: 011 Method and Message 08:54 - Steven Harms’ definition of metaprogramming Redirection At run time 13:23 - Decorator patterns 15:22 - Two categories of metaprogramming 19:13 - Ruby 2.0 Module#prepend 22:12 - Keys to understanding metaprogramming Inheritance chain Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros by Paolo Perrotta Redirect messages by defining things (def) 26:43 - undef method vs remove method 30:12 - Making code metaprogrammable Find by email 43:02 - Using metaprogramming Dynamic finders Ambiguity 49:29 - How to level up in metaprogramming 51:15 - Adding methods to objects and putting them in a module Polite metaprogramming Picks harukizaemon / hamster (James) iTunes Match (James) Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs (Avdi) Aardman Animations (Avdi) The Insufficiency of Good Design: Sarah Mei (Josh) Toward a Design for Ruby: Brian Ford (Josh) Powers Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Michael Avon Oeming (Josh) Shop It To Me (Steven) Ember.js (Steven) fastrAck (Steven) GIFL (Steven) Social Engagement (Steven) The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming by Dave Thomas (Chuck) New Media Expo 2013 (Discount code Wood20) (Chuck) Next Week Rails 4 with Aaron Patterson Book Club The next Ruby Rogues Book Club Pick will be Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz. We will be interviewing Sandi on January 2, 2013, with the episode airing January 9, 2013. The publisher, Pearson/Addison-Wesley is offering a discount via InformIT.com. First create a user account: www.informit.com/join SAVE 40% When You Buy 2: www.informit.com/ruby Add books of choice to Shopping Cart, then enter the code SAVEONRUBY during Checkout (Includes FREE SHIPPING within the U.S.!) Transcript CHUCK: So folks, this is Episode 80 -- Practical Marijuana with Steven Harms. [laughter] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] [This episode is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of RubyMine. If you like having an IDE that provides great inline debugging tools, built in version control, and intelligent code insight and refactorings, check out RubyMine by going to jetbrains.com/ruby] [This podcast is sponsored by New Relic. To track and optimize your application performance, go to rubyrogues.com/newrelic] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 80 of the Ruby Rogues Podcast! This week on our panel, we have James Edward Gray. JOSH: Good morning everybody. CHUCK: We also have Josh Susser. JOSH: Hey from overcast San Francisco! CHUCK: Avdi Grimm. AVDI: Hello from sunny but cold, Pennsylvania! CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv and we have a special guest – Steven harms. STEVEN: Hi there from… it’s actually sunny and warm, and beach house and bikinis in my district in San Francisco. JOSH: You are in the high rank district right? STEVEN: [chuckles] No, no I'm just two blocks away. CHUCK: So I have to ask – I know people are going to wonder -- are you related in any way to Angela Harms? STEVEN: No. I'm in fact no way related to any Harmses that are tech famous -- and this Steven Harms is certainly not tech famous -- so there are no famous tech Harmses that I am aware of. JAMES: I believe Angel Harms was one of our most popular episodes ever Steve,
