From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-03T06:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Metakit for Ruby - Would you want it?

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Pit Capitain wrote:

> If you're going The Ruby Way, why not
>
>   table.select { |row| row.foo =~ /hello/i }
>
> :-)

or even:

  relation.select(:field0, :field1){|tuple| tuple[:field0, :field1] === [/foo/, /bar/]}

i actually have something which does the above using named fields in arrays.
it's very cool but slower than dirt ;-)

-a
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