In which Nadia and Saron wrap up the Ruby Book Club podcast! Hear why the show has come to an end, what Nadia and Saron have learnt over the last 2 years, and what they're planning to read next.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 26 (Ch 8 pg 211-217)

Dec 10th, 2017 27m 41s

Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 8. They discuss the proc object, changing local variables after lambda has already been called, and calling lambda more than once in the same scope.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 25 (Ch 8 pg 203-211)

Dec 3rd, 2017 23m 20s

Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 8. They look at lambdas and procs, including treating functions as first-class citizens, stack vs. heap memory, and how Ruby saves a string value.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 24 (Ch 8 pg 191-202)

Nov 13th, 2017 31m 10s

Nadia and Saron start Chapter 8. They discuss blocks! We learn about closures and which is faster: a 'while' loop or passing a block to 'each'.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 23 (Ch 7 pg 180-189)

Nov 6th, 2017 18m 58s

Nadia and Saron finish Chapter 7! They discuss how Ruby implements hash functions and hash optimisation in Ruby 2.0.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 22 (Ch 7 pg 166-180)

Oct 29th, 2017 21m 34s

Nadia and Saron start Chapter 7. They talk about hash tables, including how we save and retrieve values from them, hash collisions, and rehashing.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 21 (Ch 6 pg 155-165)

Oct 22nd, 2017 35m 45s

Nadia and Saron discuss constant lookup and finish off Chapter 6.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 20 (Ch 6 pg 146-155)

Oct 15th, 2017 25m 34s

Nadia and Saron discuss Module#prepend and dive deeper into how modules and submodules behave.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 19 (Ch 6 pg 142-146)

Oct 8th, 2017 24m 24s

Nadia and Saron discuss the global and inline method caches, including modules into classes and one another.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 18 (Ch 6 pg 133 - 141)

Oct 1st, 2017 23m 30s

Nadia and Saron start Chapter 6! They discuss how Ruby implements modules and the method lookup algorithm.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 17 (Ch 5 pg 125 - 131)

Sep 25th, 2017 27m 24s

Nadia and Saron continue Chapter 5. They look at the RClass structure some more and look at where Ruby saves class methods. Then they review key takeaways from Chapter 5.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 16 (Ch 5 pg 115-125)

Sep 10th, 2017 21m 53s

Nadia and Saron continue Chapter 5. They look at the RClass structure, including inheritance, class instance variables vs. class variables, getting and setting class variables, and constants.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 15 (Ch 5 pg 108-115)

Sep 4th, 2017 25m 33s

Nadia and Saron finish continue Chapter 5, where they delve a bit deeper into the internal structure of a Ruby class, discuss generic objects, look at objects that are so simple that they don’t need a structure, the mystery of instance variable

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 14 (Ch 4, pg 99 - Ch 5, pg 108)

Aug 27th, 2017 27m 13s

Nadia and Saron finish off Chapter 4 and start Chapter 5. They look at how Ruby implements keyword arguments and start to look at the inside of a Ruby object, focusing on 'klass' and 'ivptr'.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 13 (Ch 4, pg 90-99)

Aug 21st, 2017 33m 44s

Nadia and Saron continue with Chapter 4, looking at how Ruby implements for loops internally, the send instruction, calling normal Ruby methods, and calling built-in Ruby methods.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 12 (Ch 4, pg 86-90)

Aug 13th, 2017 34m 19s

Nadia and Saron get stuck into Chapter 4. They look at how Ruby executes if statements, how Ruby jumps from one scope to another, and catch tables.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 11 (Ch 3 & 4, pg 75-86)

Aug 7th, 2017 19m 51s

Nadia and Saron pick up where they left off in Chapter 3 and dive deeper into special variables, summarize what they've learnt in chapter 3, and look ahead to Chapter 4.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 10 (Pat's Notes)

Jul 30th, 2017 13m 59s

Nadia and Saron take a break from the book to look at some helpful notes that Pat Shaughnessy put together for them based on questions they had in Episodes 7 and 8.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 9 (Ch 3, pg 67-75)

Jul 24th, 2017 39m 3s

Nadia and Saron look at local and dynamic access of variables in chapter 3 of Ruby Under A Microscope.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 8 (Ch 3, pg 61-66)

Jul 16th, 2017 30m 41s

Nadia and Saron look at executing a call to a block, paying particular attention to control frame structures, how YARV instructions are constructed, and benchmarking Ruby 2.0 and 1.9 against Ruby 1.8.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 7 (Ch 3, pg 55-61)

Jul 9th, 2017 24m 15s

Nadia and Saron start chapter 3, which explores the step after compilation: code execution.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 6 (Ch 2, pg 45-53)

Jul 2nd, 2017 27m 57s

Nadia and Saron finish off Chapter 2 of 'Ruby Under A Microscope', looking at the Local Table.

Ruby Under A Microscope - Ep 5 - Interview with author, Pat Shaughnessy

Jun 26th, 2017 33m 3s

Nadia and Saron interview Pat Shaughnessy, author of Ruby Under A Microscope, about writing the book, what got him interested in Ruby internals, and why Ruby is still one of his favorite languages.