[#406419] Recursion with Hash — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

h = {a: {b: {c: 23}}}

14 messages 2013/04/01

[#406465] Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — "senthil k." <lists@...>

I was surprised to know that there is no community for Ruby Programming

12 messages 2013/04/03
[#406467] Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — Marc Heiler <lists@...> 2013/04/04

Thing is, some people do not use Facebook and never will.

[#406528] Role of bundler in creating and installing a gem — Jon Cairns <lists@...>

Hi fellow rubyists,

11 messages 2013/04/05

[#406555] How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — peteV <pete0verse@...>

Hi Ruby people,

18 messages 2013/04/05
[#406558] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...> 2013/04/05

Subject: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is?

[#406560] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Carlo E. Prelz wrote in post #1104616:

[#406562] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...> 2013/04/05

Actually its not wrong. What it does is explicitly state which ruby

[#406563] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, D. Deryl Downey wrote:

[#406564] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Matt Lawrence wrote in post #1104625:

[#406566] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Hans Mackowiak wrote:

[#406570] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matthew Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/04/05

I'm interested in the issue with using env, but I find you explanation a but=

[#406600] Mapping string data ptr to buffer in ffi — se gm <lists@...>

I'm trying to implement some "shared memory" in Ruby, but I'm not sure

20 messages 2013/04/08

[#406683] confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I went to there - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Struct.html but the

29 messages 2013/04/11
[#406694] Re: confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/04/11

Why does every time the has value getting changed,while the instance

[#406762] Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Here is the documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/nokogiri/frames

19 messages 2013/04/14
[#406764] Re: Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...> 2013/04/14

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#406874] Input: sentence Modify: words Output: modified sentence — Philip Parker <lists@...>

I am new to Ruby. This is a programming interview question to use any

11 messages 2013/04/19

[#406912] Tap method : good or bad practice ? — Sébastien Durand <lists@...>

Hi all !

18 messages 2013/04/21

[#406936] BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY — shaik farooq <lists@...>

HEY as we know that the object conatins the instance variables that are

22 messages 2013/04/22

[#406966] copying files syntax with FileUtils.rb (grr.) — Thomas Luedeke <lists@...>

In my Ruby scripting, there is probably no greater and chronic source of

10 messages 2013/04/23

[#406969] what is the $- magic global? — Matthew Kerwin <lists@...>

I've been searching for the past hour or so, including manually stepping

13 messages 2013/04/24

[#407059] New Rexx like data structure — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>

This is just something that I have been playing with for some time but I

11 messages 2013/04/29

[#407070] writing lines to a file — peteV <pete0verse@...>

I have a text file with on every line a magic card number and such info

13 messages 2013/04/29

Re: Private setters can be called by self, why not getters?

From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2013-04-01 12:07:24 UTC
List: ruby-talk #406412
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Igor Pirnovar <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Josh Cheek wrote in post #1103861:
> > (b/c I was going to recommend making these protected instead of private,
> > in order to avoid this issue).
> >
> > -Josh
>
> You are right, making these protected instead of private seems to be the
> best solution, unless you need to shield access to your getters and
> setters from subclasses too.


You can't hide methods from subclasses.

Super = Class.new { private; attr_accessor :a }
Sub   = Class.new Super
Sub.private_instance_methods.grep /^a=?$/ # => [:a=, :a]
Sub.instance_method(:a).owner # => Super


> Taking into account, that instance
> variables in Ruby are by design public, all this accessor encapsulation
> is rather 'non-ruby-ish', nevertheless, your suggestion deserves to be
> noticed!
>
>
It's not clear to me what you mean about variables being public.

I rarely worry about my Ruby being non-ruby-ish. In this particular case, I
want to do this because I internally want to implement my public methods by
using private data. I know I could use instance variables, but I frequently
change variable names, move things around, change implementations, etc. If
I use an ivar, I start handing nil around, or setting the wrong variable.
If I use a method, I immediately get a NoMethodError. As the Pragmatic
Programmers say, "Crash Early". Furthermore, if I use a method, I can
encapsulate access from even my own object, which would allow for swapping
implementations out (e.g. switching from attr_accessor to a Struct, which
would require updating all access points if they used ivars). I know most
Rubyists aren't as bothered by things like this, and maybe they're right,
but when I disregard these concerns, I don't feel free, I feel cavalier.

-Josh

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