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Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms (#1 of a series)

By Chris | Published: May 3, 2009
I keep coming across these FACRI's (Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms) in my work, so I'm jotting them here in the hope that I'll remember them better in future. Ruby idioms Ruby is a wonderful, if somewhat slow and memory hungry language, with an incredibly flexible and expressive syntax. However this flexibility leads to the creation of [...]
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Renaming stuff with Ruby

By Chris | Published: January 4, 2009
I've been mucking around on the command line with Ruby again of late, and one thing that tripped me up initially, but is now firmly on my list of things I Like About Programming is how Ruby handles loops. With javascript, actionscript, php, it's pretty common to iterate through an array with a for loop something [...]
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