Are you using the full power of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) or are you missing out? If you are taking decisions based on the type of an object then you are missing out on one important OOP feature: polymorphism. Type decisions are usually done inside case statements (which are not OO friendly) & in this article … Read more
Would you like a quick tour of Ruby internals? Then you’re in for a treat. Because… We’re going to explore together how a Ruby object is laid out in memory & how you can manipulate internal data structures to do some cool stuff. Fasten your seatbelts & get ready for a journey into the depths … Read more
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