Tutorials for writing DSL in Ruby

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Stephan picture Stephan · Feb 8, 2011 · Viewed 22.7k times · Source

What are the good online tutorials on how to implement DSLs in Ruby? I am looking for hands-on examples that explain the whole process.

I am aware that there is this question on good books about DSLs and Ruby: Good books on Ruby based DSL.

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Upgradingdave picture Upgradingdave · Feb 8, 2011

I think this is a great series of articles on building a dsl in ruby:

http://jroller.com/rolsen/entry/building_a_dsl_in_ruby

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