Polished Ruby Programming, Chs. 1-2
October 7, 2025
We’re starting a book club on Polished Ruby Programming by Jeremy Evans. Today we covered the first two chapters.
Our discussion included:
- The DragonRuby Game Toolkit and the local game dev group RunJumpDev.
- Truthy, falsey, and methods related to them.
- Underused Ruby data types: Rational, Symbol, Set, Struct, and Data.
- SOLID principles: how Ruby ignores some of them, and how none of us has ever seen SOLID brought up in actual discussions at work and not just in interviews.
- Large vs. small classes.