Guides to the core and standard libraries, as well as selected Rubygems.
Category: APIs and Libraries
Episode #417: Subprocesses Part 3: Spawn
In this episode we learn how to asynchronously start child processes.
Episode #416: Subprocesses Part 2: Command Input Operator
In today's dish, we learn about the pros and cons of Ruby's peculiar backtick operator.
Episode #414: Subprocesses Part 1: Basics
In this, the start of a series, we dive deep into the Kernel#system method.
Episode #409: Optional Gem
In this episode, we discover the safe way to optionally enable features if a gem is installed.
Episode #406: Last Match
In this episode, we get lazy and lean on the information that Ruby captures about regex matches.
Episode #398: StringIO
After many passing mentions, StringIO finally gets its own episode!
Episode #393: Sort Check
Today we have some fun with Enumerable methods in order to check the sorted status of a list.
Episode #391: Hash Subset
A new feature in Ruby 2.3 makes it easier to compare hashes by value.