Today we’ll discuss the following section from the Ruby Style Guide: Avoid explicit use of the case equality operator ===. As it name implies it’s meant to be used implicitly by case expression...
Today we’ll talk about attributes in Ruby. Let’s start with the following rule from the Ruby Style Guide: Use the attr family of functions to define trivial accessors or mutators. Everyone w...
Today’s topic is the following rule from the Ruby Style Guide: Add underscores to large numeric literals to improve their readability. Most of the programs we write feature a substantial numb...
RuboCop 0.9 is finally out! This was one of our most ambitious releases - over a month of work, ~250 commits, lots of new cops and features and a lot less bugs.1 Here’s the highlights. Portable Li...
Today’s topic is the following rule from the Ruby Style Guide: Favor the use of Array#join over the fairly cryptic Array#* with a string argument. Array#join and Array#* (with a string argume...
The subject of today’s post is the following rule from the Ruby Style Guide: Use [*var] or Array() instead of an explicit Array check, when dealing with a </br> variable you want to treat...
Today’s topic is the following rule from the Ruby Style Guide: Favor the use of sprintf and its alias format over the fairly </br> cryptic String#% method. Kernel#sprintf and String#% b...
Welcome to the first installment of The Elements of Style in Ruby. We’ll start off with something pretty generic, that’s not specific to Ruby at all - the maximum line length that’s acceptable in ...
The Ruby Style Guide is nearing its second birthday. The project has gained more attention and more traction than I could have imagined. For the millionth time I was amazed by the fantastic Ruby de...
RuboCop 0.8.0 is out! While the version bump is minor, this release represents an almost total rewrite of the code. We’ve moved away from MRI’s Ripper parser and ported RuboCop to Peter Zotov’s fa...