The Elements of Style in Ruby #10: In cryptic Perlisms we do not trust
For better or for worse Perl had significant influence over Ruby’s initial design. A lot of things were directly borrowed from Perl, but over the years the R...
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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...
Using Ruby’s gsub with a block
String#gsub is one of the most used Ruby methods in the wild. Just about every Ruby programmer knows about the method and uses it fairly regularly.
The Elements of Style in Ruby #9: Hash#has_key? and Hash#has_value? are deprecated
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Announcing the Powerpack library
Powerpack is a small Ruby library containing (at this point) a few extensions to some core Ruby classes. I guess that in a way one can say it’s something lik...