Articles about Ruby

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