Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby

Post by djacobs » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:02 PM UTC

Post by djacobs » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:37 PM UTC

nagnatron wrote: post #2

Didn't check the code out but it looks like p is something like: obj.tap { |x| puts x }

Post by nagnatron » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

djacobs wrote: post #3

nagnatron wrote: post #2

Didn't check the code out but it looks like p is something like: obj.tap { |x| puts x }

That's the base case. It takes arguments, too, and if you give it a block, it prints out the result of the block called in the receiver's scope.

Post by djacobs » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:16 PM UTC

jimrhoskins wrote: post #6

This looks pretty cool. At first I had the reaction that it was too simple. I didn't have patience to watch the video, so I just read the homepage. I think you should at least mention the other "letters" included in the library on the front page. It goes in depth into 'p', which makes it seem like it's all there is. Maybe name some of the other letters, and link to the API docs. Each individual piece seems pretty sma…

Post by instakill » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 6:39 PM UTC

ans wrote: post #4

you registered a domain for this - a couple lines of code?