Rails - Jul 2006 - dynamic languages - how to leverage/make best use?

Hi,

Does anyone have any links to, or info on, how best to leverage the 
power of a dynamic language.  That is coming across from Java to Ruby 
I''m now pondering what would be the typical scenarios where I could 
actually call upon the power of a dynamic language.  This info could be 
in the form of best practice for dynamic language usage, or dynamic 
language patters perhaps.  I''m interested in it from the point of view 
of a ruby and/or rails developer (as opposed to a rails framework 
developer).

Just keen to "open my mind" and try to soak up what is possible here
:)

Tks

PS I guess I''m assuming one of the key benefits for rails is its
ability
to auto-populate objects with attributes etc based on the columns of 
tables in a database (my guess).

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Read the middle section of Chpt 6 of Why''s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - 
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

Where he makes a fighting game the runs on the console. Mathematical 
operators become weapons. Amusing, but a vivid enough example to help 
you realise how many levels of code you can modify and extend in a 
dynamic language.

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Oooh. Specifically section 3 - 
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-6.html#section3

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Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> Does anyone have any links to, or info on, how best to leverage the 
> power of a dynamic language.  That is coming across from Java to Ruby 
> I''m now pondering what would be the typical scenarios where I
could
> actually call upon the power of a dynamic language. 
Jim Weirich''s presentation "10 Things Every Java Programmer Should
Know
About Ruby" is good:

   http://onestepback.org/articles/10things/

regards

   Justin