TweetSince Rails is the most popular framework based on the Ruby language today, I appreciate what the Rails developer site has to say about “source style”: Two spaces, no tabs Don’t use “and” and “or” for boolean tests, instead always use “&&” and “| |” MyClass.my_method(my_arg) — not my_method( my_arg ) or my_method my_arg Follow [...]
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Ruby coding conventions, standards and best practices
September 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
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Ruby IDE
September 6th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
TweetOne of the concerns I had approaching Ruby was the apparent lack of an IDE. I see that Tim Bray expects there to be an IDE, too–among other things. There appear to be several takes on the state of Ruby development environments. For example: Languages like Java and C# have a class of developers that [...]
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Ruby, Rails and Unicode
September 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Technology
TweetAs a software architect for EMC, I’m concerned with the global reach of what I build–employed technologies must support internationalization and subsequent localization in multi-byte locales (i.e. just supporting single-byte strings or Latin-1 locales is unacceptable). Per “How To Use Unicode Strings in Rails“: Rails currently defers its Unicode support to Ruby, which currently only supports [...]
I’m starting to see red
September 3rd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
TweetWhile I may cumulatively spend a majority time and passion developing on Windows in .NET et al during my career, I also work with a significant Java code base at work. IMHO, both of these platforms overshoot the needs of classes of solutions with burdensome (not pervasive) runtimes, prolific APIs, and layer upon layer of functionality [...]
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