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A Tour Through Ruby’s Dusty Corners

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July 01, 2012
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A Tour Through Ruby’s Dusty Corners

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Sam Elliott

July 01, 2012
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Transcript

  1. A Tour Through Ruby’s Dusty Corners

  2. Motivation Wheels WTFs

  3. Core

  4. ARGF & DATA Command Line Helper Embedded contents

  5. Comparable Ordering Helpers

  6. Enumerable Iteration Helpers

  7. Enumerator Laziness built-in

  8. Fiber Like Threads but with more Mindfuck

  9. Encoding Ruby 1.9.x's notorious Encoding

  10. Method Still an Object

  11. Standard Libraries

  12. Interlude Libraries in 2.0 minitest, rake, rdoc, rubygems, bigdecimal, io-console,

    json, psych

  13. abbrev & shellwords Unambiguous Prefixes Splitting Strings the Bash Way

  14. english Perlism Avoider

  15. delegate & forwardable Delegate Pattern! SimpleDelegator

  16. optparse & getoptlong Option Parsers

  17. gserver generic TCP Servers

  18. ostruct Rails.configuration-like objects

  19. coverage & ripper Introspection tools Coverage (in-built) & Ruby Parser

  20. pstore, dbm & sdbm KV Stores File-based

  21. We’re Done Here