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i loved ruby and i still do but my focus has now shifted to scheme/clojure and lisp family dialects like racket, and i don’t see a reason to return or move to anything else it feels like my search is over.
When I discovered Ruby 12 years ago, it was an amazing moment. All the features I loved from my previous favorite languages Perl, Smalltalk, and Scheme in one place, but with a much more reasonable syntax, a far more robust standard library, a complete and dead-simple packaging system, and a practical and portable runtime. The fact that it still feels magical, fun, practical, and pragmatic all at the same time while…
I started a new contracting gig a couple of months ago, in Ruby. I had used it briefly years before in another project, but it was so long ago that I had to learn it again basically from scratch. Although I don't really think the language is anything special (i.e. it's a standard dynamic OO language), what really turns me off Ruby is this dogmatic, almost religious aspect of its community. Take POODR - it's more or l…
Was waiting for this!! Super happy about this. I’ve come to expect this every year now at this time. Ruby is still one of the most productive languages out there. I just love it. It gives me great joy that 10 years ago I chose Ruby to be the language for my future. My wish this coming year is to be able to contribute more to the Ruby ecosystem. Btw I’ve also built something using MRuby this year. The whole ecosystem…
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What would the elegant Ruby version look like, and what was inelegant about the Python version? In Python I imagine you could just do something like this: from time import sleep sleep_increment = 1 sleep_time = 0 success = False while not success: sleep(sleep_time) success = try_thing() sleep_time += sleep_increment
def backoff(wait = 5, exponent: 1.5) yield rescue BackoffError sleep(wait) wait = wait ** exponent retry end backoff { connect_to_a_thing } This is trivially composable with any other control flow you might want to write in Ruby. Personally I find the Python approach inelegant. Can it be composed? Why am I having to work with low-level looping constructs instead of higher level control flow constructs that map more c…
(1) might just be a matter of taste -- that 'retry', to me, makes me now have to step back and think "oh, I'm retrying something now? what exactly is being retried here?" Having it all wrapped up in a 'while' loop makes the intent explicit right from the get-go.
(2) I agree is nice. It would be great if you could do this:
with backoff():
connect_to_a_thing()
def connect_to_a_thing(url, access_token):
...
def backoff(connector, wait=5, exponent=1.5, *args, **kwargs):
success = False
while not success:
try:
connector(*args, **kwargs)
except BackoffError:
sleep(wait)
wait = wait ** exponent
else:
success = True
backoff(connect_to_a_thing, url, access_token)
def backoff(connector, wait=5, exponent=1.5, *args, **kwargs):
try:
connector(*args, **kwargs)
except BackoffError:
sleep(wait)
backoff(connector, wait ** exponent, exponent, *args, **kwargs)
def exponentiate_forever(value, exponent):
while True:
yield value
value = value ** exponent
def backoff(connector, wait=5, exponent=1.5, *args, **kwargs):
for wait in exponentiate_forever(wait, exponent):
try:
connector(*args, **kwargs)
except BackoffError:
sleep(wait)
else:
break
This is something I find to be using quite a lot, great to see this.
I started using Ruby only in April this year due to starting at a new job. Having used and/or dabbled in C, Java, Python and Haskell before (amongst others), I find it super interesting to see how Ruby manages to take some interesting parts from each and manages to integrate it into a very pleasant programming experience. Also the rspec testing library is nothing short of magic, none of the compiled languages have an…
Rails also uses minitest with fixtures by default, I migrated to it recently and I really like the simplicity.
When I discovered Ruby 12 years ago, it was an amazing moment. All the features I loved from my previous favorite languages Perl, Smalltalk, and Scheme in one place, but with a much more reasonable syntax, a far more robust standard library, a complete and dead-simple packaging system, and a practical and portable runtime. The fact that it still feels magical, fun, practical, and pragmatic all at the same time while…
I started a new contracting gig a couple of months ago, in Ruby. I had used it briefly years before in another project, but it was so long ago that I had to learn it again basically from scratch. Although I don't really think the language is anything special (i.e. it's a standard dynamic OO language), what really turns me off Ruby is this dogmatic, almost religious aspect of its community. Take POODR - it's more or l…
I've also never come across any particular dogma in the Ruby community -- there are established best practices for formatting code, but individual projects vary widely style and design decisions. Most Ruby codebases I've worked on come with a custom `.rubocop.yml`, and that's it.
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I started a new contracting gig a couple of months ago, in Ruby. I had used it briefly years before in another project, but it was so long ago that I had to learn it again basically from scratch. Although I don't really think the language is anything special (i.e. it's a standard dynamic OO language), what really turns me off Ruby is this dogmatic, almost religious aspect of its community. Take POODR - it's more or l…
I've been writing Ruby for 4 years, and I had never heard of POODR before. I've also never come across any particular dogma in the Ruby community -- there are established best practices for formatting code, but individual projects vary widely style and design decisions. Most Ruby codebases I've worked on come with a custom `.rubocop.yml`, and that's it.