In this first episode of Hacker Wireside Chat (and actually the first chat put up on Wireside Chat at all), Josh Holmes sat down with Patrick Farley and talked about a talk that he does called Ruby Internals. We covered a lot of different things from how Eval works in Ruby to what the new implementations, such as IronRuby and JRuby mean to Ruby developers around the world.
Pat's approach to Ruby is that the right way to approach internals is not to ask "What's a Metaclass". Instead, ask what does Ruby want to give me as a programmer that forces this into existence. To learn more - listen to the chat.
Host: Josh Holmes
Guest: Patrick Farley
Topic: Ruby Internals
Show time: 20 minutes
Important URLS:
Patrick Farley's blog
eRubyCon
Matz Ruby Interpreter (MRI)
JRuby
IronRuby
Rubinius
Listen to Episode 01 - Patrick Farley talking about Ruby Internals
Print | posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 11:40 AM