Advanced Ruby Training Course

Raise your Ruby game

Standard duration: 2 Days
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About the course:

Our Advanced Ruby training course will take delegates on a journey into more advanced usage and Best Practices of coding in Ruby. The course is rich in hands-on practical exercises to bring the techniques and theory alive.

Ruby is an Open-Source language and forms the backbone of a number of web app frameworks, most notably Rails (see here if you're actually looking for a Ruby on Rails training course).

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By the end of this course, you will have learnt:

Reflection and Ruby's object model
Methods and Instance variables
Using Pry and Debugging Ruby Code
Ruby Metaprogramming
Calling methods
Serialising and Deserialising
Defining methods dynamically
Catching calls to undefined methods
Definining classes dynamically
Building a library to interact with RESTful web services
When to use Metaprogramming

Who should attend

Ruby users who want to get further under the bonnet with Ruby.

Prerequisites

Previous experience of Ruby development is required, and a good grasp of OO programming principles.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

This Advanced Ruby course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - face-to-face, on-site at your location of choice, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or your own platform - get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

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Ruby Reflection:

Discussion: Ruby's object model
How to: list the methods available to an object
How to: see the values of an object's instance variables
How to: show an object's class hierarchy
How to: use pry to learn more about our code (including debugging)

Ruby Metaprogramming:

How to: call methods dynamically with `send`
- example: serialising and deserialising an object to and from a hash
How to: define methods dynamically with `define_method`
- example: implementing ActiveRecord's `find_by_xxx` methods
How to: catch calls to undefined methods with `method_missing`
- example: implementing (in another way) ActiveRecord's `find_by_xxx` methods
How to: define classes dynamically with `Class.new`
- example: reimplementing the standard library's `Struct` class
Bringing it all together
- exercise: building simple library to interact with RESTful web service by generating code from an XML definition of the service
Discussion: when to use metaprogramming

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Standard duration: 2 Days

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