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The default block parameter name seems small, but I feel like I'm gonna use it all the time, especially when I'm in the Rails console just trying to debug data
I'm all for adding language features to avoid boilerplate, and it's clearly useful. I just want to call out that anonymous typing can be polarizing in large codebases and maybe only use it sparingly.
Is ruby used outside of web dev (i.e., Ruby on Rails)? it seems like a nice cute language but I almost never hear about it.
I think it's quite sad that Ruby is so associated with Rails. Ruby is one of my favorite languages and last time that I touched a Rails code was in 2017. Even in web dev Rails is not the only thing in Ruby, there's also Sinatra which is an elegant micro-framework for building HTTP APIs, similar to Flask. Some projects that I remember that uses Ruby that are not related to web dev: Homebrew, Metasploit, Vagrant and Je…
Happy to see chilled strings; eventually getting rid of the frozen strings pragma will be enjoyable.
I happen to be reading the latest edition of the pickaxe book, as I'll soon be using Ruby at work (first experience) and this 'it' update sounds so much better than the _1 described in the book. I remember thinking it clashed a bit with the idea of trying to make the code read like natural language.
Is ruby used outside of web dev (i.e., Ruby on Rails)? it seems like a nice cute language but I almost never hear about it.
Is ruby used outside of web dev (i.e., Ruby on Rails)? it seems like a nice cute language but I almost never hear about it.
I think it's quite sad that Ruby is so associated with Rails. Ruby is one of my favorite languages and last time that I touched a Rails code was in 2017. Even in web dev Rails is not the only thing in Ruby, there's also Sinatra which is an elegant micro-framework for building HTTP APIs, similar to Flask. Some projects that I remember that uses Ruby that are not related to web dev: Homebrew, Metasploit, Vagrant and Je…
I happen to be reading the latest edition of the pickaxe book, as I'll soon be using Ruby at work (first experience) and this 'it' update sounds so much better than the _1 described in the book. I remember thinking it clashed a bit with the idea of trying to make the code read like natural language.
It's an unusually half-baked feature by Ruby's standards. I think there was some hesitation about the name "it" initially, because "it" is an essential method name in rspec, and is used within blocks there.
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Yup, I wrote smartcard reader programs in it. Some of them talk to a http server using async-http. It can be used for anything that Perl or Python is good at, well maybe except data science because Python really shines there. And irb is massively useful for everyday tasks.
I wish I could reach for Kotlin as a kind of "Ruby with typing out of the box" but the lack of a good REPL is a real dealbreaker.
Is ruby used outside of web dev (i.e., Ruby on Rails)? it seems like a nice cute language but I almost never hear about it.
I think the reason it's not talked about a lot is mainly because Rails overshadowing it and because there aren't so much hype or controversies around it.
I happen to be reading the latest edition of the pickaxe book, as I'll soon be using Ruby at work (first experience) and this 'it' update sounds so much better than the _1 described in the book. I remember thinking it clashed a bit with the idea of trying to make the code read like natural language.
Did you know you were going to use Ruby before Applying? Just wondering.
The market for ruby seems to have good salaries and job satisfaction despite being smallish, so it didn't seem like a bad area to get some experience in.
Why, is there any issue with the choice I'm not aware of?