Ruby Best Practices

Foreword
Preface

1 Driving Code Through Tests
-A Quick Note on Testing Frameworks
-Designing for Testability
-Testing Fundamentals
-Advanced Testing Techniques
-Keeping Things Organized
-Conclusions

2 Designing Beautiful APIs
-Designing for Convenience: Ruport's Table(?) feature
-Ruby's Secret Power: Flexible Argument Processing
-Ruby's Other Secret Power: Code Blocks
-Avoiding Surprises
-Conclusions

3 Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit
-BlankSlate: A BasicObject on Steroids
-Building Flexible Interfaces
-Implementing Per-Object Behavior
-Extending and Modifying Preexisting Code
-Building Classes and Modules Programmatically
-Registering Hooks and Callbacks
-Conclusions

4 Text Processing and File Management
-Line-Based File Processing with State Tracking
-Regular Expressions
-Working with Files
-The tempfile Standard Library
-Text-Processing Strategies
-Conclusions

5 Functional Programming Techniques
-Laziness Can Be a Virtue (A Look at lazy.rb)
-Minimizing Mutable State and Reducing Side Effects
-Modular Code Organization
-Memoization
-Infinite Lists
-Higher-Order Procedures
-Conclusions

6 When Things Go Wrong
-A Process for Debugging Ruby Code
-Capturing the Essence of a Defect
-Scrutinizing Your Code
-Working with Logger
-Conclusions

7 Reducing Cultural Barriers
-m17n by Example: A Look at Ruby's CSV Standard Library
-Portable m17n Through UTF-8 Transcoding
-m17n in Standalone Scripts
-m17n-Safe Low-Level Text Processing
-Localizing Your Code
-Conclusions

8 Skillful Project Maintenance