Ruby has a lot of tools for processing input line-by-line. But when you look a little closer, it turns out that these methods are for more than just lines of …
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Episode #638
Ruby as a Filter
Learn how Ruby's -p flag along with a bunch of handy shortcuts can take a script's worth of text filtering and shrink it to a one-liner!
Episode #485: Subprocesses Part 10: Open Pipe
Ruby's open() call has more tricks up its sleeves than you know!
Episode #480: Read and Write
Shortcuts to reading and writing files in Ruby.
Episode #471: Which
Stop writing non-portable Ruby file-management code.
Episode #470: Binary Mode
Understand once and for all how, when, and why to open files in binary mode.
Episode #468: Line Endings
A little history lesson about computer text formats
How to make your Ruby code work on Windows PCs
Windows users can feel like second-class-citizens in the Ruby world. Ruby gems and tools often don’t work quite right on Windows hosts. But we can fix this. Making your code …
Episode #314: Filesystem Testing
Today we'll learn how to test code that interacts with the filesystem.