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In my opinion one of the best Ruby talks of 2014 is "Refactoring Ruby with Monads"[0] by Tom Stuart held at Barcelona Ruby Conference.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jYlPtkrqQ

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The write-up was excellent, if you prefer a blog format: http://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads

This talk is really, really good. It is complex though so you might want to pause/play or rewatch to really get it.

It made me nearly buy Tom's book but the only reason I didn't was because I already owned it! I hope the book is similar to the talk.

Unicorn unix magic tricks is really good at explaining some of Unicorn's advanced features. It shows how Unicorn uses Unix signals and forking in detail.

The book sounds really good. Thanks for the suggestion. In case anyone is wondering, you can learn more here:

http://computationbook.com/

Every once in a while, I will stumble across a thread on HN that turns out to have been perfectly crafted for me.

I would like to thank the original poster for posting this talk and all the other HNers for posting the follow-up info (including a link to his book).

This info came to me at the perfect time.

I figured I would make my first post on HN for the year, be a positive and thankful one.

Thanks again :)

I can't recommend that book enough. It's extremely well written and approaches advanced concepts in an approachable way. The book is worth the price on the basis of fizzbuzz in lambda calculus alone.

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