Posts Tagged ‘meta programming’

To much meta will kill you


2009
05.06

This song is dedicated to all of you whose passion is to stay up all night coding. The coffee mug at hand, the beloved source code editor open; often a good dozen windows plastered around the desktop. And at last a nice song playing in the background. You are right into your element and the flow sensation is palpable.

Several hours later, your percolator is empty and without caffeine juice you start to hear strange words in your head that don’t match the actual lyric. In that cold cold night here is what I heard:

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Aspect the Ruby way


2009
04.28

The main purpose of this file is to be able to split the development code from the debugging code. Exploiting the fantastic ability of meta-programming in ruby, there is a way to write less and code more. Following the ruby way of not repeating code everywhere let’s start with this simple showcase:

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