Mastering Design Patterns with Ruby

This intermediate path explores how design patterns can help you organize Ruby applications and solve recurring software design problems. You will revisit encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction before examining the major categories of design patterns.

You will learn how creational patterns provide flexible approaches to object creation, structural patterns define relationships among components, and behavioral patterns manage communication and responsibilities between objects.

Throughout the path, you will apply these techniques to practical programming challenges. You will bring the concepts together by designing a smart home system with an emphasis on maintainability, scalability, and adaptability.

Syllabus

Apply encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction in Ruby
Select design patterns based on software requirements and constraints
Implement creational patterns to manage object instantiation
Use structural patterns to organize relationships between components
Apply behavioral patterns to coordinate object communication and responsibilities
Design maintainable Ruby solutions for real-world programming problems
Build a smart home system using multiple design patterns