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Ruby Banter #007 - Act enterprisy

Sam wonders whether Ruby and Rails are really ready for the Enterprise. In this episode Manfred answers this burning question and shows how you can be an enterpisy as Java too.read more »

Level: any Jan 03, 2008 Votes: 0 scoundrel

 

Ruby Banter #006: Function Compositio...

This episode shows some syntactic improvements on the Function Composition code we demonstrated in the first video of the series.read more »

Level: advanced Oct 12, 2007 Votes: 0 scoundrel

 

Ruby Banter #005: The Case Equality, ...

The Case Equality, Treequal or Equaal operator, however you want to call it, allows us to match objects in a more meaningful manner than plain equality. In this episode Manfred shows how you ... read more »

Level: any Sep 25, 2007 Votes: 0 scoundrel

 

Ruby Banter #004: Memoize

Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows a Ruby implementation of memoization and how you can use it.read more »

Level: advanced Sep 20, 2007 Votes: 0 scoundrel

 

Ruby Banter #003: &:to_proc

In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In this episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works.read more »

Level: advanced Sep 20, 2007 Votes: 0 scoundrel

 

Ruby Banter #002: The Boat

The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you can make your objects sortable by ... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 20, 2007 Votes: 0 scoundrel