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I’ve been trying to make JavaScript a bit more like Ruby. In particular, I want to support Ruby-style metaprogramming in JavaScript. This would make it possible to port over many advanced Ruby librari

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In a nutshell: mindlessly copy and port Rails, because it's a great web MVC framework. The result should be a web MVC framework that runs in either the client AND the server.

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Katahdin is a programming language where the syntax and semantics are mutable at runtime.

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while these clone/borrowers can approach the productivity of Rails in their language, they will not be able to match Rails completely. The reason for this is found in one simple word: Ruby.

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there’s a trend toward drawing an increasingly sharp line between regular programming and “metaprogramming” in Ruby discussions, where metaprogramming is understood to mean… well, I’m not sure what it

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Liskell is a new syntax frontend for Haskell. Next to its syntax in the form of symbolic expressions — which is known from Lisp — Liskell also features an extended meta-programming facility.

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Ruby is often touted as a good language for writing Domain-Specific Languages (“DSLs”). There are a few arguments in favour of writing a DSL as part of an application.

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A Domain Specific Language is used to introduce a new scope with an embedded set of methods.

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We follow Block, who goes into a cloak room and emerges with a change of fashion. A black hat for its dark magic, a dagger for its villianous theft of an instance’s binding, and a glimmering red ring

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Patty is a small library that facilitates working with functional data structures. It consists of a few macros and metaclasses that integrate nicely with CLOS. Code using patty is similar in style to

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Metalua is a metaprogramming extension to Lua 5.1, i.e. a compiler which allows to extend the language's syntax and semantics from within programs.

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Ruby provides a few different types of evaluation options; however, the evals I use most often are: eval, instance_eval, and class_eval

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ately I’ve been thinking a lot about How and When. Two old friends. They’re pretty quiet, but play a huge role (I think) in making us better at doing what we do.

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Java doesn’t have much of a heritage for meta-programming. Very few brave through thick forests of reflectors, proxies and code enhances, even less come out the other side. Ruby on the other hand, in

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One of the great accomplishments of Ruby is that its object and class model bring about a wonderful unity and simplicity. Even things that might seem like they should be hard or obscure are actually v

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It might be nice to be able to ask obj.variable? for any accessor-defined @variable.

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“monkeypatching”, but when you want to reopen a class and add some methods, you don’t want to use class_eval or instance_eval. In fact, you (apparently) shouldn’t ever use class_eval

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A meta-circular interpreter is a special case of a self-interpreter that applies only to programs where the primary representation of the program is a primitive data type in the language itself (this

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When working with Rails, it is tempting to conceptualize ActiveRecord#find into some genie that magically reaches into your database and pulls back the records matching the criteria you specified. The

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illustrated a few common errors and antipatterns

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thinking about a simpler, slightly more explicit way of handling this. Sometimes having too much transparency and magic is a bad thing. So, forget all the load_path mingling

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people.select(&its.name.length > 10)

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