WNY Ruby User Group

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Date: Tuesday, July 22nd at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
Location: Academic Management Systems
1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, NY

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It was a good meeting. I (Kevin) spoke briefly about will_paginate, but the majority of the meeting was Mark Josef leading us through some ideas on the history of function calls from GOTO to more recent ideas like Ruby's method_missing, as well as some interesting variations on the Observer Design Pattern in Cocoa.

There was a talk by Patrick Farley at MountainWest RubyConf2008 on Ruby Internals (video at http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/11farley.htm) that goes into detail on some similar topics in relation to Ruby.

The first chapter of Brad Ediger's Advanced Rails also goes into similar details about Ruby's implementation of method calls.

Both of these examples mainly deal with MRI (Matz' Ruby Interpreter), FYI.

Thanks, Mark.