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Previously we learned about a tool in Ruby’s standard library called un. After some consideration it occurred to me some might wonder, “How does this work?”

Ruby is well known as a language that is easy to use from the surface but is deep and complex underneath. That’s what we know and love about it. Its standard library has a similar design and contains hidden gems. One of the gems I’ve learned about recently is un. It’s designed to be a command line utility executed directly from ruby. This is its usage description:

I’ve long been a command-line nerd. It was, after all, my first computer interface starting with Apple II’s in school and DOS at home when my mother bought our first computer when I was 10. While I was fascinated by graphical interfaces when I first encountered them, text-based interfaces continued to hold a certain mystique especially as I became familiar with the UNIX shell through my early experiences with Linux based systems when I was in my teens.

I recently came accross something approximating the following in a client’s code base.