Tag Archives: Ruby

Ruby Summer of Code (RSOC)?

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 23, 2010

@Headius tweeted: “Plan A: Try to get GSoC to reconsider Rails org’s application. Plan B: Organize a Ruby Summer of Code.” Since Plan A apparently hasn’t worked, maybe Plan B will be go?

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Open Source Journaling: Cornerstone

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 11, 2009

I did another brief update to Cornerstone last night. When parsing floating point numbers, I was doing a parse of an integer, then the dot, then a series of digits, and gluing it all together afterwards. Fred Medlin at the Java Hack Night pointed out that was silly, and I should should parse the value [...]

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My Fundamental Issue with Ruby

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 1, 2009

If you’re going to play it fast-and-loose with types, that really is fine by me. But Ruby gets on my nerves with the way it does not let me do typing when useful and yet eagerly punishes me for using the wrong types.

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Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)

By Robert Fischer | Published: June 24, 2008

After I learned OCaml, my coding mindset was totally distorted. I started writing Java code that looked like this: public Collection<foo> getCertainFoos() { return CollectionUtils.select(getFoos(), new Predicate() { public boolean evaluate(Object o) { return SOME_CONSTANT.equals(((Foo)o).getProperty()); } }); } </foo> This is kinda ugly in Java, but it’s simply what comes out when I was thinking [...]

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My Frustrations with REXML: Ruby’s Standard Library for Reading/Writing XML

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 24, 2008

So, I’m trying to do a little bit of XML reading/writing with Ruby. I used REXML, and the pain pissed me off enough to share my frustrations with the world. Hopefully someone can avoid the pain and suffering I put up with.

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