Ruby Book Club Wrap Up
In which Nadia and Saron wrap up the Ruby Book Club podcast! Hear why the show has come to an end, what Nadia and Saron have learnt over the last 2 years, and what they're planning to read next.
Jan 21, 2018•19 min
Ruby Book Club Podcast
Where we discuss an hour of a Ruby book each week
Episodes
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 26 (Ch 8 pg 211-217)
Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 8. They discuss the proc object, changing local variables after lambda has already been called, and calling lambda more than once in the same scope.
Dec 10, 2017•28 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 25 (Ch 8 pg 203-211)
Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 8. They look at lambdas and procs, including treating functions as first-class citizens, stack vs. heap memory, and how Ruby saves a string value.
Dec 03, 2017•23 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 24 (Ch 8 pg 191-202)
Nadia and Saron start Chapter 8. They discuss blocks! We learn about closures and which is faster: a 'while' loop or passing a block to 'each'.
Nov 13, 2017•31 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 23 (Ch 7 pg 180-189)
Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 7! They discuss how Ruby implements hash functions and hash optimisation in Ruby 2.0.
Nov 06, 2017•19 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 22 (Ch 7 pg 166-180)
Nadia and Saron start Chapter 7. They talk about hash tables, including how we save and retrieve values from them, hash collisions, and rehashing.
Oct 29, 2017•22 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 21 (Ch 6 pg 155-165)
Nadia and Saron discuss constant lookup and finish off Chapter 6.
Oct 22, 2017•36 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 20 (Ch 6 pg 146-155)
Nadia and Saron discuss Module#prepend and dive deeper into how modules and submodules behave.
Oct 15, 2017•26 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 19 (Ch 6 pg 142-146)
Nadia and Saron discuss the global and inline method caches, including modules into classes and one another.
Oct 08, 2017•24 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 18 (Ch 6 pg 133 - 141)
Nadia and Saron start Chapter 6! They discuss how Ruby implements modules and the method lookup algorithm.
Oct 01, 2017•24 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 17 (Ch 5 pg 125 - 131)
Nadia and Saron continue Chapter 5. They look at the RClass structure some more and look at where Ruby saves class methods. Then they review key takeaways from Chapter 5.
Sep 25, 2017•27 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 16 (Ch 5 pg 115-125)
Nadia and Saron continue Chapter 5. They look at the RClass structure, including inheritance, class instance variables vs. class variables, getting and setting class variables, and constants.
Sep 10, 2017•22 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 15 (Ch 5 pg 108-115)
Nadia and Saron finish continue Chapter 5, where they delve a bit deeper into the internal structure of a Ruby class, discuss generic objects, look at objects that are so simple that they don’t need a structure, the mystery of instance variables on generic objects, and more.
Sep 04, 2017•26 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 14 (Ch 4, pg 99 - Ch 5, pg 108)
Nadia and Saron finish off Chapter 4 and start Chapter 5. They look at how Ruby implements keyword arguments and start to look at the inside of a Ruby object, focusing on 'klass' and 'ivptr'.
Aug 27, 2017•27 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 13 (Ch 4, pg 90-99)
Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 4, looking at how Ruby implements for loops internally, the send instruction, calling normal Ruby methods, and calling built-in Ruby methods.
Aug 21, 2017•34 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 12 (Ch 4, pg 86-90)
Nadia and Saron get stuck into Chapter 4. They look at how Ruby executes if statements, how Ruby jumps from one scope to another, and catch tables.
Aug 13, 2017•34 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 11 (Ch 3 & 4, pg 75-86)
Nadia and Saron pick up where they left off in Chapter 3 and dive deeper into special variables, summarize what they've learnt in chapter 3, and look ahead to Chapter 4.
Aug 07, 2017•20 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 10 (Pat's Notes)
Nadia and Saron take a break from the book to look at some helpful notes that Pat Shaughnessy put together for them based on questions they had in Episodes 7 and 8.
Jul 30, 2017•14 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 9 (Ch 3, pg 67-75)
Nadia and Saron look at local and dynamic access of variables in chapter 3 of Ruby Under A Microscope.
Jul 24, 2017•39 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 8 (Ch 3, pg 61-66)
Nadia and Saron look at executing a call to a block, paying particular attention to control frame structures, how YARV instructions are constructed, and benchmarking Ruby 2.0 and 1.9 against Ruby 1.8.
Jul 16, 2017•31 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 7 (Ch 3, pg 55-61)
Nadia and Saron start chapter 3, which explores the step after compilation: code execution.
Jul 09, 2017•24 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 6 (Ch 2, pg 45-53)
Nadia and Saron finish off Chapter 2 of 'Ruby Under A Microscope', looking at the Local Table.
Jul 02, 2017•28 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 5 - Interview with author, Pat Shaughnessy
Nadia and Saron interview Pat Shaughnessy, author of Ruby Under A Microscope, about writing the book, what got him interested in Ruby internals, and why Ruby is still one of his favorite languages.
Jun 26, 2017•33 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 4 (Ch 2, pg 34 - 44)
Nadia and Saron continue on with Chapter 2. They look at how Ruby compiles a simple script and compiling a call to a block.
Jun 18, 2017•24 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 3 (Ch 1, pg 22 - Ch 2, pg 34)
Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 1 and dig into parsing. They also take a look ahead at Chapter 2, which covers compilation.
Jun 10, 2017•23 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 2 (Ch 1, pg 9-21)
Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 1 of "Ruby Under A Microscope". They explore parsing in more detail, looking at the LALR algorithm and Ruby's grammar rules.
Jun 04, 2017•32 min
Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 1 (Foreword, Intro, Ch 1 pg 3 - 9)
Nadia and Saron start a brand new book, "Ruby Under A Microscope" by Pat Shaughnessy. They review the Foreword, Introduction, and start Chapter 1 which is about tokenization and parsing.
May 28, 2017•23 min
Refactoring Ruby - Ep 12 (Ch 6, pg 160-166)
Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 6 of Refactoring Ruby. They discuss Isolate Dynamic Receptor and Move Eval from Runtime to Parse Time.
Mar 13, 2017•17 min
Rebroadcast - Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen Interview
In this rebroadcast, Nadia and Saron interview Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen on their book, 99 Bottles of OOP.
Mar 09, 2017•1 hr 6 min
Refactoring Ruby - Ep 11 (Ch 6, pg 152-160)
Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 6 discussing Dynamic Method Definition and Replace Dynamic Receptor with Dynamic Method Definition.
Feb 27, 2017•24 min