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Erik Berlin
December 03, 2015
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Ruby Trivia 3
Presented at the Berlin Ruby User Group (RUG::B) on November 5, 2015.
Erik Berlin
December 03, 2015
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Transcript
Ruby Trivia 3
What is the value of the global variable $_? Question
1:
The String last read by gets. Answer 1:
How can you list all global variables? Bonus Question:
How can you list all global variables? Bonus Question: Answer:
Use the Kernel#global_variables method.
How many global variables does Ruby define? global_variables.count Bonus Question:
How many global variables does Ruby define? global_variables.count Bonus Question:
Answer: 54.
What does Ruby’s -n switch do? Question 2:
Causes Ruby to assume the following loop around your script,
which makes it iterate over file name arguments like sed -n or awk. while gets ... end Answer 2:
What does Ruby’s -p switch do? Bonus Question:
Acts like the -n switch, but prints the value of
variable $_ at the each end of the loop. For example: ruby -p -e '$_.tr! "a-z", "A-Z"' < file Bonus Question:
What thread-local variable can only store four possible values? Question
3:
What thread-local variable can only store four possible values? Question
3: Hint #1: Those values are 0, 1, 2, and 3.
What thread-local variable can only store four possible values? Question
3: Hint #1: Those values are 0, 1, 2, and 3. Hint #2: The value is 0 by default and can only increase.
$SAFE Answer 3: Trick question because it looks like a
global variable, even though it behaves like a thread-local variable.
$SAFE Answer 3: There used to be $SAFE = 4
but it was removed in Ruby 2.1. Supposedly, it was only ever used by one company in Japan.
How can you check if an object is trusted? Bonus
Question:
How can you check if an object is trusted? Bonus
Question: Answer: Use the Kernel#tainted? method.
What happens if you do this? module Kernel def tainted?
return false end end Question 4:
The tainted? method will always return false, but Ruby will
still track tainted state via an internal FL_TAINT flag. Answer 4:
How can you mark a tainted object as safe? Question
5:
Kernel#untaint a.k.a. Kernel#trust $SAFE = 1 foo = gets.trust eval(foo)
Answer 5:
Thanks for playing! Follow @sferik on Twitter for more Ruby
trivia and practica.