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The Beauty of Ruby

Presented by Glenn Vanderburg on Jul 03, 2007 06:00 PM

Community
Ruby
Topics
Programming
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JAOO Conference ,
Language Features
Summary
As Edd Dumbill wrote, "the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour." It's true that some of the best things about Ruby aren't obvious to newcomers. In this talk Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love.

Bio
Glenn Vanderburg is an independent consultant focused on cutting-edge software development technologies and techniques, including Ruby, JavaScript, Ajax, and state-of-the-art development practices.

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.
Other dynamic languages by Carl Gundel Posted Jul 11, 2007 10:25 AM
Presentation Slides by Tamer Salama Posted Jul 13, 2007 1:11 PM
Good Presentation by Satish Talim Posted Jul 23, 2007 10:27 PM
trying to watch by lee h Posted Jul 26, 2007 10:02 PM
Re: trying to watch by Larry Diehl Posted Jul 27, 2007 10:41 PM
Re: trying to watch by lee h Posted Aug 4, 2007 8:39 PM
Talk was incorrect regarding arrays of regexp objects in perl by Josh ben Jore Posted Aug 7, 2007 12:43 PM
Don't talk about Perl if you don't know it by brian d foy Posted Aug 14, 2007 4:42 PM
Ruby presentation by Jure http://blog.regulus.si Posted Feb 7, 2008 1:21 PM
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    Other dynamic languages

    Jul 11, 2007 10:25 AM by Carl Gundel

    Ruby is a great language. Rubyist should definitely not ignore some even more elegant languages like Smalltalk and LISP.

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    Presentation Slides

    Jul 13, 2007 1:11 PM by Tamer Salama

    Great presentation. Any chance slides would be available for download?

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    Good Presentation

    Jul 23, 2007 10:27 PM by Satish Talim

    I liked the presentation.

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    trying to watch

    Jul 26, 2007 10:02 PM by lee h

    I would love to watch this, but with low bandwidth the buffering every ~5 secs is killing me...and would take WAY too long to get through it...I would love to be able to download it...any thoughts?

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    Re: trying to watch

    Jul 27, 2007 10:41 PM by Larry Diehl

    Here's a textual summary =) http://larrytheliquid.com/2007/07/28/ruby-elegance-nuances/

    I would love to watch this, but with low bandwidth the buffering every ~5 secs is killing me...and would take WAY too long to get through it...I would love to be able to download it...any thoughts?

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    Re: trying to watch

    Aug 4, 2007 8:39 PM by lee h

    thanks for the link!....though I still would love to see the full video

  7. Perl has had a regexp object since 5.6 was released in 2000. I don't know of any operating systems that still ship with an older version. The speaker should have done his homework on this before spending what seemed like five minutes larking about how this feature was lacking. We've had this seven years now. Please catch up.

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    Don't talk about Perl if you don't know it

    Aug 14, 2007 4:42 PM by brian d foy

    Ruby is certainly a nice language and I like it. However, you shouldn't use your ignornace if Perl to support Ruby: * Perl sigils do not denote type: they denote context. $scalar is a scalar, but $array[0] works with an array, and $hash{foo} works with a hash. @array[0,1] works with an array, but @hash{'foo', 'bar'}. It's not type, what you're doing with it. You can read more about that in Learning Perl. * Perl regular expressions aren't operators: the match operator, m//, is an operator, but that's not the thing that's the pattern. The stuff inside the match operator is the pattern, but the pattern is not the match operator. You can create a regular expression without the match operator with the qr() quoting mechanism. You'll eventually find that Ruby, if it gets as popular as Perl, will be treated as poorly as Perl as newbies learn by hit-and-miss. Newbies will invent their own systems to explain the portions of Ruby that they know and that they think they understand. Just wait :)

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    Ruby presentation

    Feb 7, 2008 1:21 PM by Jure http://blog.regulus.si

    Tnx! I really like to learn from these Ruby presentations since I am unable to be at the conferences for now. Jure http://www.scarlet-studio.net

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