{"id":8204,"date":"2013-11-09T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2013-11-09T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:49:51","slug":"ruby-under-a-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/ruby-under-a-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Under a Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/rum\">No Starch Press<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1593275277\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Amazon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/rum\"><p><em>Ruby Under a Microscope<\/em> gives you a hands-on look at Ruby&rsquo;s core, using extensive diagrams and thorough explanations to show you how Ruby is implemented (no C skills required). Author Pat Shaughnessy takes a scientific approach, laying out a series of experiments with Ruby code to take you behind the scenes of how programming languages work. You&rsquo;ll even find information on JRuby and Rubinius (two alternative implementations of Ruby), as well as in-depth explorations of Ruby&rsquo;s garbage collection algorithm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like a good book, and it&rsquo;s currently on sale.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Starch Press (Amazon): Ruby Under a Microscope gives you a hands-on look at Ruby&rsquo;s core, using extensive diagrams and thorough explanations to show you how Ruby is implemented (no C skills required). Author Pat Shaughnessy takes a scientific approach, laying out a series of experiments with Ruby code to take you behind the scenes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,255,46,71,287],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-book","tag-compiler","tag-languagedesign","tag-programming","tag-ruby"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}