James Adam @james@ruby.social

IRB syntax highlighting in Ruby 2.7 is pretty awesome!

#PipelineOperator #Ruby http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-brief-history-of-pipeline-operator.html

Matz is getting people to weigh in on the |> operator over on the birdsite: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/1139419951444271104

My thoughts, having it as an alias for dot operator is meh.

Hey #Ruby devs, if you're looking to help out the #fediverse, check out #prismo! It's a link sharing platform, similar to https://lobste.rs or hacker news, that federates over #ActivityPub.

The lead (and only) dev has to back off development for a while, but it would be great to spin up a team that could pick up the slack and keep the project moving.

You can find the repo here:
https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

and the matrix room here:
https://matrix.to/#/!IadFDmzRTSlgzQTZHj:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=swedneck.xyz&via=feneas.org

Very interesting POV relating to #Lisp & #Smalltalk

http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html

Welp, you can now watch me delivering the talk about why I think federated package management is what we should do. Ulp.

https://youtu.be/MO8hZlgK5zc

Oh, hi, friends. Ruby gem drive-by detail fixer and co-maintainer.

puts "Hello, ruby.social"

Ruby tip:

class Foo
def self.value
@value ||= defined?(super) ? super : DEFAULT_VALUE
end
end

this will turn Foo.value into a value you can configure per class (with a default), and you'll automatically inherit the superclass' value

I was initially skeptical to another code loader, but Zeitwerk is actually very very nice: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk. it's based on Ruby's built-in autoload (as opposed to const_missing) so constant resolution works as expected

I am a software developer, my favourite programming languages are Ruby and C++.

I also love Scholasticism philosophy and video-games.

#introductions