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...
Several months passed since I stated my intent to shutdown WikEmacs. While I still consider the project a failed experiment and stand by everything I wrote in that post, I have received since lots ...
RuboCop 0.6.0 was just released! It’s RuboCop’s biggest and most ambitious release yet!1 Here are the highlights: 15 new cops (lint checks) Support for disabling cops locally in a file with ...
After I launched the Ruby Style Guide I often received requests to create a tool enforcing the rules in the guide automatically. Today this tool is a reality - meet RuboCop. RuboCop already covers...
I’ve recently launched a new blog dedicated to Emacs - Emacs Redux. There I’ll be sharing with you (hopefully) useful tips and tricks to make your experience with Emacs more productive and more en...
Less than a year ago amid a lot of turmoil I’ve started an alternative to EmacsWiki. The project took off to a great start, but quickly lost traction and now it’s time to face the truth - I had an ...