All about Struct
This guest post is by Steve Klabnik . Steve is a Rubyist, writer, and teaches Ruby and Rails classes with Jumpstart Lab. He maintains Draper, Hackety Hack, and Shoes, and
contributes to Rails from time to time.
O ne of my favorite classes in Ruby is Struct , but I feel like many Rubyists don't know when to take advantage of it. The standard library has a lot of junk in it, but Struct and OStruct are super awesome.
Struct
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby 1.6.6 is Released
- Practicing Ruby: Structs inside out
- Intridea - Company Blog: Hashie: The Hash Toolkit
- Mental Paging Space: Returning to Roots - Comparison of Ruby and C-Sharp
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Ruby SuperStruct: enhanced version of the standard Ruby Struct
- Khelll's Blog: StackOverflow cool Ruby questions 3
On the other hand, Why is passionate about teaching programming to children. So improvements to Hackety Hack would be welcome.
Or take direct action along those lines, and teach Ruby to a child.
I made a note of WhyDay on my personal tech blog, Global Nerdy , as well as the blog I got paid to write for (I was a Microsoft employee at the time). I didn't get the chance to do as much as I'd like in the spirit of Whyday, probably because I was knee deep …
- Global Nerdy: It's Whyday!
- Heroku: Polyglot Platform
- format internet:: My slides for "Jruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails sobre la JVM"
- DigitalHobbit: It's been a while...
- terrbear.org: Bundler: I was wrong
- The "Tech. Arch.": Running the Camping Microframework on IronRuby
…for them in their current situation. Luckily, since both Steve Klabnik (of Hackety Hack) and Andy Lindeman (of P2PU) were also in attendance, I was able to help folks who weren't quite ready for RbMU find someone who could help them. Interacting directly with a number of folks at different skill levels revealed some interesting patterns that are probably worth blogging about.
Because I spent much of the last week or so interacting with people face to face and listening …
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Ruby Mendicant: Progress Report #4
- Practicing Ruby: Supporting the Ruby Mendicant experiment
- RubyLearning Blog: Dmitry Lipovoi Winner RPCFN #10
- Plataformatec Blog: Outpost v0.1.0 is released!
Hackety Hack 1.0 - _why's Baby All Grown Up
Despite losing Why The Lucky Stiff over a year ago, Why's Shoes and Hackety Hack projects have lived on under the care of Steve Klabnik (amongst others). I'm going to write a separate, deeper post on this but it deserves to be in the list since Steve pushed out Hackety Hack 1.0 on Christmas Day along with an all-new Hackety Hack homepage .
- Ruby Inside: Happy 18th Birthday, Ruby!
- Headius: JRuby Finally Installs ruby-debug Gem
- Mike Clark: It's About Time
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Xue Yong Zhi
- RubyLearning Blog: How do I keep multiple Ruby projects separate?
- Bamboo Blog: Learning Japanese the Rubyist way
…really easy to use, too. Just put the command you'd use to switch in the file. For example, in the Hackety Hack website project, I have the following .rvmrc : rvm 1.8.7@hackety-hack.com
Astute readers will notice that I left off the ‘use,' rvm defaults to ‘use' if you don't give it a different command. Check it out: $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0] $ cd hackety-hack.com $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) …
- Ruby Inside: How Santiago Pastorino Went From Ruby Newbie to Rails Core in 2 Years
- Intridea - Company Blog: Inspect Ruby Process From gdb
- Old dog, new tricks: Is it all over for Ruby? (already!)
- Mike Perham: Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Pt. 2
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: Support for new Brightbox Cloud API in Fog
- A Piece of Our Mind: Friday Morning MetaBits - Oct. 1, 2010