Using Ruby’s gsub with a hash
Recently we discussed how you can use String#gsub with a block. Today we’ll examine another somewhat unknown feature of the gsub method - the ability to supp...
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A couple of useful extensions to Ruby’s Enumerable module
Ruby’s Enumerable module is pretty extensive, but from time to time I wish it had some extra methods, that are available in the standard libraries of other l...