Ruby Book Club Podcast

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.

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.

Nadia and Saron 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 how long Ruby takes to save an instance variable.

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'.

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.

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.

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YARV website

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.

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'A Short Explanation of ARGV' blog post

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.

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Pat's Notes on questions from Episodes 7 and 8

Nadia and Saron look at local and dynamic access of variables in chapter 3 of Ruby Under A Microscope.

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.