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I generally despise 'then' after an 'if' clause in Ruby, because Ruby doesn't need it and it clutters up my screen.However, I've discovered that there is one case where I do like to use it, and that's multi-line if statements. Sometimes they're unavoidable, and the 'then' serves as a useful line break that denotes where the clause ends and the...

I generally despise 'then' after an 'if' clause in Ruby, because Ruby doesn't need it and it clutters up my screen.However, I've discovered that there is one case where I do like to use it, and that's multi-line if statements. Sometimes they're unavoidable, and the 'then' serves as a useful line break that denotes where the clause ends and the...

I originally posted this on ruby-core but thought I'd blog it, too. I've posted before about the problem of determining which methods were "real" and which were aliases. One problem, as I mention in that link, is that that Ruby mostly uses synonyms instead of aliases in the source code.For example, Array#map and Array#collect are synonyms but...

I originally posted this on ruby-core but thought I'd blog it, too. I've posted before about the problem of determining which methods were "real" and which were aliases. One problem, as I mention in that link, is that that Ruby mostly uses synonyms instead of aliases in the source code.For example, Array#map and Array#collect are synonyms but...

I dreamt I was fired because my bank account had reached $0. Apparently, corporate policy is that if you go bankrupt (or, at least, if your checking account reached $0), you're automatically fired. Luckily, there was an alien invasion the same day, so my firing was rather small on the "world problems" scale, and I didn't feel so bad.Just in...

I dreamt I was fired because my bank account had reached $0. Apparently, corporate policy is that if you go bankrupt (or, at least, if your checking account reached $0), you're automatically fired. Luckily, there was an alien invasion the same day, so my firing was rather small on the "world problems" scale, and I didn't feel so bad.Just in...

This will be the first RubyConf I've ever missed. My travel budget was burned up on a make-up trip to Florida (caused by the blizzard), a trip to Thailand, a trip to Wisconsin for the 4th of July, and an upcoming trip to Florida for Christmas. Something had to give, and it was RubyConf.Also, work is getting hectic, what with the...

This will be the first RubyConf I've ever missed. My travel budget was burned up on a make-up trip to Florida (caused by the blizzard), a trip to Thailand, a trip to Wisconsin for the 4th of July, and an upcoming trip to Florida for Christmas. Something had to give, and it was RubyConf.Also, work is getting hectic, what with the...

I started watching Heroes tonight, then lost interest and just watched Monday Night Football instead. Which was good, because I won my Fantasy Football matchup as the result of the final play of the game. :)In other news, I discovered that if you try to search Google for a Unicode character, you get nothing back. I don't mean "No results...

I started watching Heroes tonight, then lost interest and just watched Monday Night Football instead. Which was good, because I won my Fantasy Football matchup as the result of the final play of the game. :)In other news, I discovered that if you try to search Google for a Unicode character, you get nothing back. I don't mean "No results...

Yup, I broke RubyForge. Or rather, rubygems. For about an hour.It turns out that a gem created with the latest (unreleased) beta causes serious problems with older versions of rubygems. I *think* it's because of the platform handling change, but I'm not positive. We'll have to review it on the rubygems-devel list.Hey, if you're gonna break the...

Yup, I broke RubyForge. Or rather, rubygems. For about an hour.It turns out that a gem created with the latest (unreleased) beta causes serious problems with older versions of rubygems. I *think* it's because of the platform handling change, but I'm not positive. We'll have to review it on the rubygems-devel list.Hey, if you're gonna break the...

I discovered a minor little bit of nastiness with both our own win32-api and Ruby's Win32API library. Consider the following bit of code: require 'Win32API' strtok = Win32API.new('mvscrt', 'strtok', 'PP', 'P') string = "A string\tof ,,tokens\nand some more tokens"; seps = " ,\t\n"; puts "Tokens:" token = strtok.call(string, seps) while token...

I discovered a minor little bit of nastiness with both our own win32-api and Ruby's Win32API library. Consider the following bit of code: require 'Win32API' strtok = Win32API.new('mvscrt', 'strtok', 'PP', 'P') string = "A string\tof ,,tokens\nand some more tokens"; seps = " ,\t\n"; puts "Tokens:" token = strtok.call(string, seps) while token...