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Better Know A Ruby Thing #4: Keyword Arguments
Last time on Better Know A Ruby Thing, we covered positional arguments, and now we’re going to move on to keyword arguments. I really did think this was going to be shorter than the last one, and then I got to the conversion between keyword and positional arguments, and then…...
Better Know A Ruby Thing #3: Positional Arguments
Ruby has three ways to pass information from a method call to a method definition: positional arguments, keyword arguments, and block arguments. Each of these ways has:
The Pickaxe is out and I am Happy
I am extremely excited to say that Programming Ruby 3.3, also known as The Pickaxe Book, is now done done, finished, completely available as an ebook, and winding its way to distributors to ship to people as a genuine physical book.
How To Manage Duplicate Test Setup, or Can I Interest You In Weird RSpec?
You have a series of test cases. They cover the same logic with different inputs. In order to get to that logic, there’s some overhead: objects have to be created first. Then there’s more logic needed to evaluate the result.
Better Know A Ruby Thing Bonus: Contestants and Nesting
Sorry for skipping a week or two – I was approving copyedits on the book that is now called Programming Ruby 3.3, because we now want to be proactive about the next release.
Better Know A Ruby Thing #2: Constants
A fun thing about learning Ruby is that sometimes concepts that have the same name as in other languages have different behavior and purpose in Ruby.
Better Know A Ruby Thing #1: method_missing
Welcome to “Better Know A Ruby Thing”. In each one of these, we’re going to look at some feature of Ruby language, library, ecosystem, or culture and explain what it does, how it works, why it’s there, and any thing else that comes to mind.
Books Recommendation List: 2022
Even by my standards, this one is slow to come out, so I’ll keep the intro brief.
Hi, All, It's a Pickaxe Q&A
I haven’t sent out a newsletter in 2022 – about 10% of people subscribed to this newsletter have never seen an actual newsletter in their mailbox.
Books That Made Me Happy: 2021
Welcome. Because of the exact kind of person I am, it’s always bugged me when people put out year’s best lists in early December – the year isn’t over, what if you read or see something on, like, December 29th that changes your whole list. (I realize this is a...