Learn Rails 6: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Adam Notodikromo 2021

A. NotodikromoLearn Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6026-5_3

3. Advanced Ruby

Adam Notodikromo¹ 

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Tokyo, Japan

 

In the previous chapter, we learned some fundamental programming techniques every Ruby engineers need to know about. For instance, we learned how to express a float.

Being true to the object-oriented paradigm, in Ruby, every object has a class. Understanding how Ruby works is necessary to becoming a productive Ruby and Rails engineer.

In this chapter, we will explore more advanced topics in Ruby programming, such as how to create our own class and how a class is different from a module.

We will also discuss methods, blocks, lambdas, and everything in between. With metaprogramming, we will learn how to create ...