Giles Bowkett wrote:
>> Nice review, but coverage of the GoF patterns? But I've read so many
>> otherwise intelligent folks say that the GoF patterns were created to
>> address the limitations of less flexible languages, and that there's
>> no need for them in a language as powerful as Ruby...
>>
>> What gives?
> 
> I was wondering about that myself. I think the Singleton pattern gets
> used a lot in Ruby, though. Definitely a question worth asking.
> 

Well ... I have the book. I'm totally unfamiliar with the GoF book. I
know it's a classic, but I've just never gotten around to learning
design patterns. So I got the book and I like it. If you're already an
expert on design patterns from another language, for example, from "Head
First Design Patterns" (Java) I rather doubt you'll learn anything from
this book that you don't already know. But for me, it's exactly what I
need. :)