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Harry Fuecks

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RubySource: Getting to Grips with Blocks Posted: Sep 9, 2011 12:14 PM
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When making the switch to Ruby from a PHP background, one of the grayest areas for me was blocks. Blocks are everywhere in Ruby and not having a good understanding of them will stall your learning past the “novice” stage. When you first start out with Ruby you will inevitably use blocks exclusively for iteration. Hello Blocks 3.times {|n| puts "Printed #{n} times" } The code above must be the “hello world” of blocks, and from that single line we get alot of what Ruby is all about

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