Rails Under the Knife
After months of rehearsing and revising, I finally gave the talk at OSCON. I think it could use another month of refinement, but people seemed to enjoy it, and I actually enjoyed giving it as well. If you were at the talk, thank you for coming and feel free to let me know if you have any feedback or questions.
My talk was Rails Under the Knife, a look at the some of the internals of Rails to get a better idea of 3 powerful Ruby techniques:
- Metaprogramming
- Reflection
- Blocks
You can download the slides at
This talk is aimed at an intermediate Rails programmer who knows the basics of Rails coding (I have another similar talk for beginners called Rubyisms in Rails), but still is a bit unsure about the power trio of serious Rails hackery. Hopefully, this will help to provide some inspiration for you to delve into the Rails code on your own. Enjoy.
