From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2009-11-12T10:21:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubular Rocks


On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Richard Conroy wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 11, 12:23 pm, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Big thumbs-up to Rubular:
>>> 
>>> http://rubular.com/
>>> 
>>> It made all the difference in the development of one of my most recent
>>> projects.
>>> 
>>> Thank You, Mr. Lovitt.
>> 
>> I second this motion. I've definitely used it for sanity checking. :)
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> I love the way you can train or observe a regex with inputs to see which it
> passes and which it rejects.
> Instant seed data to my validation tests.
> 

At the last boulder.rb users meeting, someone mentioned that they writeup a regular expression in rubular, hit the "make a permalink" button, and then paste the resulting URL into their source code as a comment where the regular expression is declared. Great way to document how the regular expression functions.

Blessings,
TwP