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Ruby off Rails retweeted
JRuby 9000 is out and sounds amazing blog.jruby.org/2015/07/jruby… well done to @headius and the JRuby team!
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Even if you’re not ready to abandon your favorite ORM just yet, check out ROM Mapper guides. You may find it helpful rom-rb.org/guides/basics/map… – at Calvià, Spain
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I've been using Sequel for about a year now and have been super-impressed - learn more: "RubyTapas Freebie: Sequel" bit.ly/1J4WMSM
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Ruby off Rails retweeted
Pro tip - you can set a program's process name in Ruby by setting a var. Good for progress bars. $PROGRAM_NAME = 'foo'
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Thoughtful, interesting article pondering the future of Ruby and dynamic/static typing by @tomstuart codon.com/consider-static-ty…
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Brilliant! @jonelf: This FizzBuzz Ruby hack by @ksknac is very impressive, hard to grok. 1.upto(100){|n|puts'FizzBuzz '[o=n**4%-15,o+13]||n}
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The spec for Ruby is not MRI or RubySpec...it is the Ruby defined by the community's code. If you can't run it, you're not a Ruby.
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At the end of April I'm going to offer a metaprogramming crash course. You can master Ruby. Details soon…
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I can't recall who asked, but here is the article I wrote on creating gems - blog.engineyard.com/2015/its…
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Ruby off Rails retweeted
Especially seeing how people are taking inspiration from functional languages and using it: awardwinningfjords.com/2015/…
"Up and running with Lotus" ...a nice step by step walkthrough of the Rails alternative bit.ly/1Hh4k22
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ENV.fetch('SOMETHING', default) with `dotenv` is my fave way of configuring applications now. Leave out `default` if env var is required.
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Ruby off Rails retweeted
2015 Ruby Survey Results are live: askr.me/ruby! Key takeaways: 1% of respondents use Ruby 1.8; 7% use Ruby 1.9; 92% use 2.0+.
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A comparison of 4 different gems for "Markdown Processing in Ruby" - tl/dr: use Redcarpet bit.ly/19he40h
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There's a bug in #Ruby 2.2.0; combining *args & **kwargs can cause a segfault. Backported to 2.2 & patched in 2.3 bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10…
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Ruby off Rails retweeted
You can also safely remove the magic encoding comment (-*- coding: utf-8 -*-) from all your code as UTF-8 is the default encoding in Ruby 2.
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