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.