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Your favourite bit of Ruby code?

February 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Code Snippets, Ruby, Tricks

An interesting thread at Ruby_talk is ‘Your favorite bit of Ruby code.’


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John Carter
from New Zealand has this interesting snippet of code:

# Ruby is Objects all the way down and open for extension...
class Integer
  def factorial
    return 1 if self <= 1
    self * (self-1).factorial
  end
end

puts 6.factorial

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  • 1 geshido // Feb 10, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    My favorite is:

    def debug(message)
    if DEBUG == 1 and (block_given? ? yield : true )
    puts “DEBUG: #{message}”
    end
    end

  • 2 Ruby Expert // Sep 16, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    John’s example illustrates Ruby’s elegance and extensibility. My favorite is the file search - http://www.rubytips.org/about/

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