Hello everyone. I recently began to dig more deeply into Ruby 2.0. The most interesting feature to me is the addition of real keyword arguments. As I searched for information on how other languages implement and use keyword arguments, I realized how…
Continue Reading…Today, I want to talk about code metrics. Taking the time to critically analyze your code can provide a number of wonderful benefits. It provides a viewpoint through which you can identify problem areas in your code base. It can give you…
Continue Reading…Rule one to metaprogramming: Don’t Panic! Like many others, I have struggled with the term metaprogramming. For the purposes of this article I’ll be going broad with my working definition of metaprogramming to include: Any code that significantly raises the level of…
Continue Reading…Why Jekyll? As a Rubyist you’ll often see example code that starts like rails new blog and it is tempting. Many of us have gone down that rabbit hole because, as a programmer, it feels right to start from scratch and have…
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