[#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: Ruby Gotchas presentation slides

From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2013-04-01 17:22:04 UTC
List: ruby-talk #406417
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Julian Leviston
<julian@coretech.net.au> wrote:

> quite a few of your "gotchas" are about how ruby is ruby.

Er, well, yeah, that was kinda the point!

> For example, puts 'hi' if 0 is unexpected if you're a
> C programmer., but not if you're a smalltalker!

Eh?  I didn't bother with the "conditional after statement" stuff.
That's common enough in other scripting languages, and it's just a
syntax variation, not a gotcha per se.  The capability may be
surprising, but it's not something that you might expect to work a
completely different way, or something that looks perfectly valid but
isn't, due to parser quirks.

> Also, your slide 20 is about a closure, not a loop.

Sort of.  It looks like a loop, it quacks like a loop... but the
second you turn your back, it will nibble you to death with quirks
like that.  :-)  I suppose I could make the difference, and the root
cause, clearer without being TOO verbose.  How's this grab you:

    Variables declared in /blocks passed to iterators/ (e.g., times or
each) are undefined at the top of /each/ iteration!

    /Built-in looping constructs/ (e.g., while or for) are OK.

    /Iterators/ call the block repeatedly, so vars are out of scope
again after each call.

I've made the code skinnier (meaning the error message takes more
lines), so I could extend the explanation into more lines.

> If you're going to do some educating, it'd be good if you made sure
> the NEW information you are propagating is as correct as possible.

It's as correct as could be squeezed into the space and time
available.  (I was trying to keep the whole thing under an hour.)  I'm
considering making this into a series of screencasts, and then perhaps
I can explain more.

Thanks,
Dave

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