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Advanced Ruby: Behind The Magic Week 1 Welcome to the course Monkey Patching Refinements for safer monkey patching Alias vs alias_method Introspecting classes and methods Class instance variable inheritance Blocks in Ruby Blocks vs Procs vs Lambdas The to_proc method Splat Operator (*) Week 2 require & require_relative load & autoload Zeitwerk autoloader Autoloader from scratch Module Nesting Week 3 Intercepting errors with method_missing Duck typing with respond_to? Improving with respond_to_missing? Dynamic methods with define_method Generating methods dynamically like ActiveRecord Recreating ActiveRecord initialize ActiveRecord where queries Include vs Extend Modules & recreating ActiveSupport::Concern Define multiple methods at once with class_eval Ruby's Eigenclass Metaprogramming Rich Text Mentions Week 4 Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) Defining methods dynamically at runtime How Rails' RouteSet and Mapper works Rails' Route Mapper from scratch Rake from scratch Gilded Rose Kata Gilded Rose: Introduction Gilded Rose: Extracting Classes Gilded Rose: Refactoring with Modules Bonus Lessons Three Meditating Monks Pay gem design & architecture

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