One peculiarity of Ruby that trips up a lot of programmers migrating from other languages is the fact that while it has true and false types, they don’t share a …
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Episode #535
Episode #535: String Cleaning with Avdi
Master Ruby's power tools for cleaning up and normalizing strings.
Bust nils with Hash#fetch!
A RubyTapas classic, now free: learn how to use Hash#fetch to catch missing hash keys before they do more damage!
Episode 524: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 2 with Avdi Grimm
Part 2/2 of a play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session. More fun with regexes, lazy enumerators, and more!
Episode 523: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 1 with Avdi Grimm
Check out this play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session, with commentary on live/fast feedback, lazy enumerators, and more!
Episode #495: Faker
Learn about a useful tool for generating realistic-but-fake data for examples and tests.
Episode #478: Combination
Understand when and how to use Ruby's array combination methods.
Episode #476: Group By
Grouping data by various properties is easy in Ruby, and there are more uses for it than you might think...