Ruby Book Club Podcast
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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.
4) 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'.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 21 (Ch 6 pg 155-165)
Nadia and Saron discuss constant lookup and finish off Chapter 6.
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.