L1
Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on truly knowing the language you write every day
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Course · 7 lessons
~60 hr
Intermediate
Ruby Language Mastery
Move from "I write Ruby daily" to "I understand how Ruby works internally — the object model, method lookup, closures, metaprogramming, memory, and the VM."
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
L2
Read: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (Black)
Approach: SELECTIVE: Part II (Ch 4-6), Part III (Ch 7-9)
primary
Pat Shaughnessy's Blog
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L3
Read: Ruby Under a Microscope (Shaughnessy)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Pat Shaughnessy's Blog
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L4
Read: Mastering Ruby Closures (Lim)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Pat Shaughnessy's Blog
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L5
Read: Polished Ruby Programming (Rodriguez)
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
Pat Shaughnessy's Blog
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L6
Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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L7
Checkpoint: Write a Ruby metaprogramming library (a mini ActiveSuppor...
Write a Ruby metaprogramming library (a mini ActiveSupport concern) that uses included, classeval, definemethod, and methodmissing. Trace the method lookup chain through your code…
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7 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.