Today's special is a note on style with a side order of opinion. Enjoy! (Note: I made a mistake in the visualization of which variables correspond to which on either …
Tag: variables
Episode #161: Thread Local Variable
Today's episode introduces the concept of thread-local variables, and shows how they can be put to use in an ActiveRecord-like library.
Episode #158: Constant Lookup Scope
This episode takes a look at some potentially surprising rules for how Ruby looks up constants. Notes: "Everything you ever wanted to know about constant lookup in Ruby", by Conrad …
Episode #106: Class Accessors
Today, some thoughts on writing class-level attribute accessors.
Episode #086: Naked Splat
In this episode we tackle how to override base class methods while cleanly passing through multiple base-class arguments. Notes: Paul Battley on Destructuring Assignment in Ruby
Episode #085: Ignore Arguments
Sometimes a block or method may receive arguments that you just don't care about. This episode introduces the idiomatic Ruby way to indicate that certain arguments should be ignored.
Episode #084: Splat Group
Today we take a look at a related feature to Ruby's "splat" operator: the ability to recursively destructure arrays using grouped assignment.
Episode #083: Custom Splat
In today's episode we discover how to make an arbitrary object implicitly "splat"-able.
Episode #081: Implicit Splat
Delving further into Ruby's destructuring assignment, or "splat", mechanism, today we look at some cases where Ruby performs splatting without an explicit '*' operator.