RBrbxbx·Dec 19, 2011
>> it's an accretion of rewriting tricks
I think you'll find this point of contention won't work against raganwald: https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails
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7 sourcesI used this on a production project:
https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails
Of course, one of its design goals was that we be able to walk away from it, so it compiled to plain Ruby files much as Coffeescript compiles to Javascript.
In Haskell-style monad do-notation for Ruby... using code rewritingI like it, and I speak as someone who is slowly recovering from a year in a sanatorium gibbering about how I killed Mozart by using a library to decompile Ruby into sexps, then rearranged the sexps before reconstructing Ruby code:
https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails
I'd still be in a padded cell if I hadn't run into a doctor who eschewed the more complex forms of therapy and simply told me to stop doing that.
In Lispy - Code-as-data in Ruby, without the metaprogramming madness.Hello again! Thanks for anticipating the next post that is currently in draft form. I am extremely interested in what I call "meta-syntactic programming" and everybody else calls "Macros circa 1969."
http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails#readme
In Metalinguistic Abstractions in Rubye.g. Here is the code for my Extension Methods rewriter:
http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails/blob/master/lib/re...
Context:
http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-04-2...
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