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 …
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Episode #565
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.
Episode #247: Multiline Strings
Today we'll compare a few different ways to quote large, multi-line blocks of text.
Episode #030: Backticks
Celebrate Friday with a stupid Ruby trick! In this epsiode we discover one of Ruby's most overlooked operators, and overload it just because we can.
Episode #009: Symbol Literals
Some alternative ways to write symbols in Ruby code.