To really master the command line you have to master dozens - if not hundreds - of small utility programs. Fortunately, it's possible to replace a lot of these single-purpose tools with a general-purpose programming language like Ruby. This post will show you how you can use your Ruby skills to level up your command-line game.
In this post we'll use a little-known command line flag to spy on Ruby as it parses our code.
Did you know that it's possible to log all method calls as they occur in a running process in real time? How about injecting code to be executed inside of a running process? You can – via the magic of the rbtrace gem.
In this post we'll discuss some non-obvious behavior of class variables and show how it's all the fault of lexical scoping.
Have you ever needed to group items in an array, or lines in a file? In this post we'll discuss a few often-overlooked Enumerable methods that let you do just that.
The humble splat operator (*) is one of those features of Ruby that just gets more interesting the more you look at it. In this post we'll talk about how you can construct and manipulate arrays with splats.
In this post we'll follow the journey of a simple program as it's lexed, parsed and compiled into bytecode. We'll use the tools that Ruby gives us to spy on the interpreter every step of the way.
Many problems faced by beginning Rubyists are caused by not understanding self. Join me and take a deep dive into self in Ruby under common and uncommon conditions.
In this post, we'll dive into regex conditionals and discuss how to work around the limitations in Ruby's implementation of them
Are refinements slow? I wrote a few benchmarks to find out. The answer was surprising.