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Ruby 1.9 Fun

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic Programmers fame) describes some new Ruby 1.9 syntax: 
first, *, last = 1,2,3,4,5
puts first
puts last
will produce 
1
5
The same syntax also works for method definitions 
def test( first, *, last)
  puts first
  puts last
end
test( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )
will produce the same output as above.

Sequel 2.0 Almost Here

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Sequel 2.0 Release Candidate has just been released. All deprecated methods have been removed so it’s probably a good idea to check your existing code before porting over.

14th May Cape Town Ruby Brigade Meeting

Monday, 12 May 2008

Don’t forget the next meeting of the Cape Town Ruby Brigade takes place at 19:00 this Wednesday 14th May at the Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town. This months topic will be a report back on the Scotland on Rails conference. More details at the Cape Town Ruby Brigade Google group meeting page.

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We provide Ruby

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Why Ruby?

Ruby is a object oriented programming language that is designed to make development as quick and painless as posssible. Taking the best practices from a number of other languages, Ruby

  • is easy to write, read and maintain
  • has a well thought out and extensive standard API
  • has a thriving developer community
  • is rapidly gaining popularity worldwide

Ruby is on the cutting edge of web development technology not only through the Ruby on Rails framework but also through new and exciting frameworks such as Merb and Sequel.

Ruby is also ideal for traditional application development and available APIs allow Ruby to create cross platform GUI application for Linux, Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows and FreeBSD.

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