In a language full of expressive little shorthands, it's time to meet a new idiom! This one makes simple blocks even more concise.
Tag: syntax
Episode #608
Composed Regex
Regular expressions can quickly grow to be large, dense, and impenetrable. In today’s episode you’ll learn how Ruby helps you compose them out of smaller, manageable pieces!
Episode #586
Don’t Use Greater-Than
You know there are some programming language features you're just not supposed to use: goto. Global variables. The greater-than operator. Wait, the greater-than operator?! Find out why, in this guest …
Episode #565
Parameter Destructuring
Learn about Ruby's method introspection features while re-creating JavaScript's parameter destructuring. Join guest chef Brandon Weaver for this mind- and language-expanding episode!
Make big numbers readable in Ruby
Quick! How many zeroes are in 1000000000000000? Large literal numbers may be a cinch for the computer to read, but they aren't very friendly to human eyes. Take 45 seconds …
Use beautiful binary literals in Ruby
Stop trying to remember octal permission codes. Instead use beautiful binary literals in your Ruby code!
Episode #509: Logical Matrix with Piotr Szotkowski
Use an obscure feature of Ruby integers to efficiently store large matrices of boolean data.
Episode #413: Top Level Constant
An episode about children, flowers, and Ruby constant lookup paths.
Episode #408: Leaning Toothpicks
A quick episode about regular expression quoting.