From: Frank Spychalski <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T19:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to learn 'the ruby way'

Devin Mullins wrote:
> I'm thinking the best way to do that is by posting examples (short, 
> repeatable code snippets for us to chew on). In general, it's usually
>  going to involve more functional constructs, and heavy use of 
> blocks. :) But that's not always the case. Usually, you'll get about 
> Six Ruby Ways.


The problem here is how to find the useful example. If I don't know that
something could be handled in a more elegant way, I don't know that this
could be a good example...

RevMike wrote:
> But I've gone back and refactored the app 3 times!  And I have 
> another refactoring planned.  The app has only two classes.
> 
> In my opinion, if you know how to do something in one way, make it 
> work. then go back and refactor over and over again, trying different
>  Ruby constructs, until you are comfortable with what you are doing.


I think that's a pretty good tip. I'm working on a small Ruby on Rails
application and every time I add new code I refactor a large portion of
old code because nearly every day I find new and easier ways of
doing something in Ruby...

bye
Frank