So it’s not like this doesn’t exist elsewhere on the ‘net, but in case you stumbled upon one of my other Ruby on Rails posts and I caught your interest, here’s how to get started developing Rails apps on Windows. If you’re a little resistant to try Rails, look how simple the install is. What [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Ruby Beauty – Iteration with an Index
I just love how expressive and clean Ruby’s syntax is. How often do you need to iterate over a collection and get a count as well? That sort of code is ugly in something like C#, but in Ruby: people = %w{Dave Bill Mike Mark John} # Simple collection of names people.each_with_index { |name, index| [...]
Ruby Beauty – Dynamically Invoking Methods
Continuing with my exploration of Ruby as a .NET guy, here’s another example of Ruby’s expressive syntax in action. I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails. If you are interested in others, see my other Ruby posts. Within the context of Ruby, you [...]