Nimble Code: Rails Under the KnifeJacob Harris' Weblogtag:www.nimblecode.com,2005:TypoTypo2008-09-26T01:22:30-07:00Jacob Harrisharrisj@nimblecode.comurn:uuid:7b7fce0c-25ef-4561-8ca1-6552ceb9e5722007-07-26T18:20:00-07:002008-09-26T01:22:30-07:00Rails Under the Knife<p>After months of rehearsing and revising, I finally gave the talk at <span class="caps">OSCON</span>. I think it could use another month of refinement, but people seemed to enjoy it, and I actually enjoyed giving it as well. If you were at the talk, thank you for coming and feel free to let me know if you have any feedback or questions.</p>
<p>My talk was <strong>Rails Under the Knife</strong>, a look at the some of the internals of Rails to get a better idea of 3 powerful Ruby techniques:</p>
<ul>
<li>Metaprogramming</li>
<li>Reflection</li>
<li>Blocks</li>
</ul>
<p>You can download the slides at</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/harrisj-share/oscon2007.pdf">http://s3.amazonaws.com/harrisj-share/oscon2007.pdf</a> (<em>5mb <span class="caps">PDF</span>!</em>)</li>
</ul>
<p>This talk is aimed at an intermediate Rails programmer who knows the basics of Rails coding (I have another similar talk for beginners called Rubyisms in Rails), but still is a bit unsure about the power trio of serious Rails hackery. Hopefully, this will help to provide some inspiration for you to delve into the Rails code on your own. Enjoy.</p>