Staff Engineer at Chime, and the co-author of Programming Ruby and the author of Modern Front End Development for Rails.
Also on Bluesky as @noelrappin.com and Threads as noelrap
| Website | https://noelrappin.com |
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Most Recent Book Link | https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5 |
| Github | https://github.com/noelrappin |
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Once in a while, I like to read a book about a programming language I have been using for a while to find new tricks or to refresh and sharpen my knowledge about it. I just finished reading "Programming Ruby 3.3," and I must say this is my favorite Ruby book now. What makes this one so special is that it is quite recent and covers all the new features.
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Better Know A Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes by @noelrap https://buttondown.com/noelrap/archive/better-know-a-ruby-thing-singleton-classes/
In which I finally understand ruby’s class model, and the crucial fact that class methods are not instances methods of the Class class.
The official Ruby documentation page at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ has gotten a much-needed update.
Thanks to @zenspider for taking charge on fixing this!
(I should note that it now directly references the Pickaxe, but it's better for lots of other reasons, too...)
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