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NYC Ruby Roundtable - November 8, 2017

Reflection in Ruby: Automated Analysis

Paul Stefan Ort, @PaulStefanOrt github.com/paulstefanort

Def Method, Dependable <[email protected]>

Use Cases

find changes across gem versions
- example: Rails 5.0.5 -> Rails 5.1.0
identify potentially conflicting monkeypatches
generate test cases dynamically

Further Resources

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black
Metaprogramming Ruby 2 by Paolo Perrotta
Talks
- Jim Weirich
  - RubyConf 2012: Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming
  - RubyConf Uruguay 2013: Why aren’t you using Ruby?
- Ryan Davis
  - Mountain West Ruby 2016: Writing a Test Framework from Scratch
- Sam Phippen
  - RubyConf 2015: Extremely Defensive Coding

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