From: Milo Luo <lxybhbh@...>
Date: 2009-12-27T14:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to truncate the spaces in the front of a line

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On 27.12.2009 05:20, Milo Luo wrote:
>> Thanks for great explainations.
>> And one more question, how can you get this method so quickly? Is that
>> your experience or  is tip there on it?
> 
> Both. ;)
> 
> For one, experience allows me to remember where, roughly, something is
> in the documentation, or if something that I want to do exists already.
> Then it is down to reading the documentation. ;)
> 
> Ruby is, for the most part, logically organized (once you now the 
> lingo).
> 
> In your example, you have a String (appending .class to anything should
> reveal the object's class, [].class reveals that this is an Array), so
> you look at what methods the String class offers.
> 
> With a little experimentation in irb, you can see if what you found is
> useful. :)
> 
> A few pointers:
> 
> You can access Ruby's documentation online at ruby-doc.org.
> 
> Another help is the excellent Pickaxe book (Programming Ruby, 2nd
> Edition is the most relevant for 1.8.x; 3rd Edition for Ruby 1.9.x),
> which works as a Ruby tutorial (for experienced developers, anyway), and
> an excellent reference to the language.

Cool. I should really have a try. :)
Thank you, Phillip. You really help me a lot.

Milo
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