Ruby Standard Library
The Ruby Standard Library is a vast collection of classes and modules that you can require in your code for additional features.
Tag: stdlib
Episode #494: Special Variables Part 4: Speak English!
Now that you've learned how to obfuscate your code with Perl-style special variables, learn how to make it readable again!
Episode #435: Date Math
Calculating dates in the past or future, without the assistance of ActiveSupport.
Episode #399: StringIO Test Fake
Today we learn about how the StringIO class can help us test methods that work with files.
Episode #398: StringIO
After many passing mentions, StringIO finally gets its own episode!
Episode #390: Fiddle Importer
Today we learn a valuable shortcut for calling C libraries from within Ruby.
Episode #387: Fiddle
In this episode, we'll learn how to call out to C libraries directly from Ruby code.
Episode #355: Word Wrap
The Ruby standard library omits a method for wrapping text at word boundaries. Today we'll look at a few different ways to fill this gap.
Episode #322: Benchmark
Today we'll learn how to answer our optimization questions with hard data.
Episode #318: Expect
Today we'll look at how to automate interactive console programs from Ruby.
Episode #292: Delegate Class
Ruby's 'delegate' stdlib provides a couple different variations on delegator bass classes. Today we'll look at the differences between the two, and at how to choose on or the other.