If you don’t have a CS (Computer Science) degree you might feel like you are missing out on something… Or you may feel like CS is too abstract to be useful… Or that Ruby already does all the hard work for you… Either way… It’s helpful to understand the basics of data structures like hashes, … Read more
Equality means that two things are the same. In Ruby, we compare objects & their values to find out if they’re the same object. The question is… How do you compare two things in Ruby? Like this: 1 == 1 # true You’re probably familiar with this already… But did you know that == is … Read more
15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should KnowBy Jesus CastelloRuby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before……in this post I compiled some of those details for your own enjoyment in a nice-looking list :) 1 Heredoc + Method If you have some data that you … Read more
One of my favorite data structures is the hash table because it’s simple & powerful. You probably have used it before since it’s an efficient way to store key-value pairs. There are some interesting computer science concepts behind the implementation of a hash table that are worth studying, and that’s exactly what we are going … Read more
In this article you’ll learn about the Ruby pack & unpack methods! But why do we need these methods? Working with text is a lot easier than working with binary data. Text allows you to use: regular expressions methods like scan & match gsub But if you want to work with binary data, there is … Read more