James Adam @james@ruby.social

@Hikus welcome!

Sad to hear that @matthewrudy@twitter.com has passed away.

He was a great supporter of the Ruby communities in London, Hong Kong and far beyond.

You'll be missed, Matthew.

@halfbyte @fjfish indeed. What Payola did that was nice was abstract away all of the plumbing so you just had to write a couple of handlers to deal with events (e.g. `customer.subscription.created`). My whole Stripe integration was/is maybe 30 lines tops.

Anyone here use a gem/engine to integrate with Stripe billing? I used `payola-payments` in the past, but it's not been updated for a long time.

@fjfish @phaedryx what are the benefits of abbreviating at all?

The only justification I can think of in an age of auto-completing editors is where a shorter variable name makes the structure of the logic clearer (i.e. single-line enumerations). Even then, I'd still pick a short word over an abbreviation thought.

@usmanity “Ruby Quiz” might have some interesting problems to try?

@len if you're already used to the vim keybindings, seems like switching to evil would be pretty seamless?

@postmodern Some instances do support an "instance only" visibility, which has a tangential similarity to this idea. I don't know how we would stop the mechanism you describe from just being a spam vector for the local timeline though...

@phil_pirozhkov congrats on the Ruby Weekly mention! It's a shame that the headline contained the slightly misleading explanation though, but still. Nice! :)

What version of Ruby is your main project or product running against?

@phil_pirozhkov I'm back at the computer, and I'm pretty sure it's lexical scope at play.

When we write `Class.new do ... end`, the lexical scope of the block is the same level as `Class.new`, and that's where the constant is defined.

We can demonstrate this by changing scope by moving into a new class or module:

class Foo
Bar = Class.new do
A = 123
end
end

Foo::Bar::A # => Uninitialized constant A ..
Foo::A # => 123

Always fun figuring this stuff out!

@phil_pirozhkov very interesting. Away from IRB, I’m trying to figure out if this is a lexical scope thing, or a block/closure thing, or both… my hunch is it’s mostly the former though.

@levis welcome, we're really glad you're here!