Category: The Ruby Programming Language
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“A Quick Tour of Ruby” by Steve Yegge
Very nice to read. Ruby used to annoy me simply by existing. I first heard about Ruby years ago, in maybe 1997 or 1998, and folks said it was kind of like Perl, but “cleaner”, whatever that meant. Ruby fans back then seemed like a tiny minority of rebels and fringe separatists. Ruby irked me…
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“rake”, the ruby DSL, improved
Well, I started using rake instead of make in 2007, when I got ruby infected. I noticed then, that rake’s output is a little “dis-arranged” (the entire “command” came printed in one single line). That changed in the meantime, at least now with 0.8.7 it is just the way I like it. Thank you to…
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Ragel State Machine Compiler
Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages. Ragel targets C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. […]
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ruby and here-documents
Ruby has such a feature, and of course it’s pretty, pretty useful. I found an article on here-documents in several programming languages at the English wikipedia.