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If you're an experienced Ruby programmer, Effective Ruby will help you harness Ruby's full power to write more robust, efficient, maintainable, and well-performing code. Drawing on nearly a decade of Ruby experience, Peter J. Jones brings together 48 Ruby best practices, expert tips, and shortcuts-all supported by realistic code examples.Jones offers practical advice for each major area of Ruby development, from modules to memory to metaprogramming. Throughout, he uncovers little-known idioms, quirks, pitfalls, and intricacies that powerfully impact code behavior and performance.Each item contains specific, actionable, clearly organized guidelines; careful advice; detailed technical arguments; and illuminating code examples. When multiple options exist, Jones shows you how to choose the one that will work best in your situation.Effective Ruby will help you systematically improve your code-not by blindly following rules, but by thoroughly understanding Ruby programming techniques.Key features of this concise guide includeHow to avoid pitfalls associated with Ruby's sometimes surprising idiosyncrasies What you should know about inheritance hierarchies to successfully use Rails (and other large frameworks) How to use misunderstood methods to do amazingly useful things with collections Better ways to use exceptions to improve code reliability Powerful metaprogramming approaches (and techniques to avoid) Practical, efficient testing solutions, including MiniTest Unit and Spec Testing How to reliably manage RubyGem dependencies How to make the most of Ruby's memory management and profiling tools How to improve code efficiency by understanding the Ruby interpreter's internals
Contents
Foreword xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xviiAbout the Author xixChapter 1: Accustoming Yourself to Ruby 1Item 1: Understand What Ruby Considers to Be True 1Item 2: Treat All Objects as If They Could Be nil 3Item 3: Avoid Ruby's Cryptic Perlisms 6Item 4: Be Aware That Constants Are Mutable 9Item 5: Pay Attention to Run-Time Warnings 12Chapter 2: Classes, Objects, and Modules 17Item 6: Know How Ruby Builds Inheritance Hierarchies 17Item 7: Be Aware of the Different Behaviors of super 24Item 8: Invoke super When Initializing Subclasses 28Item 9: Be Alert for Ruby's Most Vexing Parse 31Item 10: Prefer Struct to Hash for Structured Data 35Item 11: Create Namespaces by Nesting Code in Modules 38Item 12: Understand the Different Flavors of Equality 43Item 13: Implement Comparison via "<=>" and the Comparable Module 49Item 14: Share Private State through Protected Methods 53Item 15: Prefer Class Instance Variables to Class Variables 55Chapter 3: Collections 59Item 16: Duplicate Collections Passed as Arguments before Mutating Them 59Item 17: Use the Array Method to Convert nil and Scalar Objects into Arrays 63Item 18: Consider Set for Efficient Element Inclusion Checking 66Item 19: Know How to Fold Collections with reduce 70Item 20: Consider Using a Default Hash Value 74Item 21: Prefer Delegation to Inheriting from Collection Classes 79Chapter 4: Exceptions 85Item 22: Prefer Custom Exceptions to Raising Strings 85Item 23: Rescue the Most Specific Exception Possible 90Item 24: Manage Resources with Blocks and ensure 94Item 25: Exit ensure Clauses by Flowing Off the End 97Item 26: Bound retry Attempts, Vary Their Frequency, and Keep an Audit Trail 100Item 27: Prefer throw to raise for Jumping Out of Scope 104Chapter 5: Metaprogramming 107Item 28: Familiarize Yourself with Module and Class Hooks 107Item 29: Invoke super from within Class Hooks 114Item 30: Prefer define_method to method_missing 115Item 31: Know the Difference between the Variants of eval 122Item 32: Consider Alternatives to Monkey Patching 127Item 33: Invoke Modified Methods with Alias Chaining 133Item 34: Consider Supporting Differences in Proc Arity 136Item 35: Think Carefully Before Using Module Prepending 141Chapter 6: Testing 145Item 36: Familiarize Yourself with MiniTest Unit Testing 145Item 37: Familiarize Yourself with MiniTest Spec Testing 149Item 38: Simulate Determinism with Mock Objects 152Item 39: Strive for Effectively Tested Code 156Chapter 7: Tools and Libraries 163Item 40: Know How to Work with Ruby Documentation 163Item 41: Be Aware of IRB's Advanced Features 166Item 42: Manage Gem Dependencies with Bundler 170Item 43: Specify an Upper Bound for Gem Dependencies 175Chapter 8: Memory Management and Performance 179Item 44: Familiarize Yourself with Ruby's Garbage Collector 179Item 45: Create Resource Safety Nets with Finalizers 185Item 46: Be Aware of Ruby Profiling Tools 189Item 47: Avoid Object Literals in Loops 195Item 48: Consider Memoizing Expensive Computations 197Epilogue 201Index 203
