Ruby design patterns and idioms

[Jack Christensen]

I've read Design Patterns and similar material. While I've certainly
picked up some good ideas, it seems that most of the techniques are
simply the normal ruby way, or are only necessary for lower level
languages and aren't applicable.

There are a lot of really useful things that can be done with
method_missing, duck-typing, closures, reflection, all the
metaprogramming stuff, etc. Most of what I understand of that comes from
looking through the source of ruby projects.

Are there any books or other resources on design patterns or techniques
specific to dynamic languages?

Jack

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Are there any books or other resources on design patterns or
techniques specific to dynamic languages?

See if this gets you going:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?ExampleDesignPatternsInRuby

James Edward Gray II

 

[Gene Tani]

Are there any books or other resources on design patterns or techniques
specific to dynamic languages?

Jack

i mostly search this mail list but:

the facets and extensions libs, ruby tricks-R-us

http://redhanded.hobix.com/
and why's links below the picture of the pickax on the right, prolly
take a fe wmonths to work thru ;-}

c2 and artima.com
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?search=ruby

and the draft ORA ruby cookbook looks very promising

 

[James Britt]

Jack Christensen wrote:

This may have already been mentioned, but:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/


Smalltalk books should have interesting reading, too:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html


--
James Britt

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute."
- H. Abelson and G. Sussman
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

 

[Dido Sevilla]

Are there any books or other resources on design patterns or techniques
specific to dynamic languages?

I have an old issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (August 1997), that has an
article entitled: "Dynamic Design Patterns in Objective-C: Dynamic run
times affect how programs are designed and built". While the article
focuses mainly on Objective-C and gives some examples from the
NeXTStep Runtime (today in use as Mac OS X's Cocoa), the dynamic
runtime of Objective-C is sufficiently similar to Ruby's that many of
the same principles apply. Apparently, the full text of the article
is available here:

http://202.179.135.4/data/DDJ/articles/1997/9708/9708d/9708d.htm