From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T06:54:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Your favorite bit of ruby code?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Carl Lerche wrote:

> I'm just curious what your favorite bit of ruby code is? Do you have
> any small bits, methods, classes, or anything else, that just make you
> say "Wow, that is sweet!"

Ok, I have run out of time to list them all in detail...

But things involving
   ruby -r find -e 'Find.find{|f|...}'

   ruby -i.bak -nple '....'


   Hash.new(0)

   Hash.new{|hash,key| hash[key] = ....}

are very sweet


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