Zucker 4 adds accessors to some environment information:
- OS: returns the current operating system
- RubyEngine: returns the current Ruby implementation
- RubyVersion: returns the current Ruby version
And here is how it works. […]
Do you know the official Ruby interpreter "goruby"?
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New features of Ruby Zucker version 2 and 3
The Zucker gem has gotten some new features. Installation is as easy as
gem install zucker
and
require 'zucker/all' […]
Introducing Ruby Zucker - a new syntactical sugar gem
Zucker is a collection of lightweight scripts (cubes) that make Ruby even more beautiful: rubyzucker.info […]
The multi mega method list
One of my favourite ways of learning something about existing code is to load it into irb and play around with it. You are able to ask every object in irb what it can do. It is as easy as you just asking for methods or public_methods and the object will show its abilities. But often you get spammed by Object or irb methods that you rarely want to use. […]
Project Euler 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (Ruby)
More solutions for the projecteuler.net problems. Some of them are solved using 1.9.2 features. […]
Become a Proc Star!
One useful (and funny) feature of Ruby is the Symbol#to_proc method that lets you write concise code like this: %w|1 2 3 4|.map(&:to_i). Almost everyone who knows this feature loves it ;). However, the use cases are pretty limited, because in most cases you need to pass parameters! […]
New Array and Enumerable methods in Ruby 1.9.2: keep_if, chunk...
In Ruby, dealing with Arrays and similar objects is pretty fun. And we have gotten more possibilities with Ruby 1.9.2 :) […]
The 28 Bytes of Ruby Joy!
The 28 Bytes of Ruby Joy will notably clean up your code: […]