From: Greg Willits <lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-07T06:01:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ternary Usage

>> I know there's a book called The Ruby Way -- does it tend to address 
>> these kinds of usage idioms where "method 2 out of 4 tends to be the way 
>> most people do it"?

Jay Levitt wrote:
> Many, and I'd highly recommend the book.  But Ruby's a young language, 
> and idioms go in and out of fashion, especially in the Rails community, 
> which (for better or worse) makes up a large part of the newest Ruby 
> population.

Cool, I'll get the book. I'm overseeing a Rails project, so I need to 
have at least a working familiarity with both, though I'm more 
interested in learning Ruby to a deeper level than Rails. (I've been 
doing all my own work in another language & my own framework). However, 
I'm also going to be doing a bunch of automated / CLI data aggregation 
and misc utility work which I chose Ruby for -- mostly to force the 
issue of familiarity.

>> I have plenty enough experience in dynamic, reflective, OO programming,
>> to figure out the bulk of Ruby, but Ruby does seems to have its own way
>> of approaching some things compared to my experience.

David A. Black wrote:
> There wouldn't be much point in having it if it didn't :-) 

Heh. True. :-)

> Hopefully you'll find it interesting and worthwhile.

I'm sure I will. My first code has been a simple web crawler. After 
getting over a few little syntax humps, it's been fairly easy to 
implement.

Thanks everyone. I look forward to more chats :-)

-- gw
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