How to Stop Cucumber Becoming Technology Roadkill | The Shine Technologies Blog

marcfasel · 1 month

Amen

mocker_kc · 2 months

Understanding lisp in general will help you with any lisp out there... including oddities like elisp.

bfoz · 2 months

So name your gem something obvious. The point I was making is that there really is no "proper" here. Personally, I think that mentality is a waste of time (most of the time). I'd name it something fun like "DaWG" simply because I can.

ETA: Make that "DaWG the File Writer".

bfoz · 2 months

"BTW, why is Prawn in it's own namespace instead of something more obviously related to PDF handling?"

Because we're not perl. Name it what you want. There is no "proper".

zerd · 2 months

works fine for me when compiled with clang (compiles w/o warnings). llvm-gcc is clean as well. I don't have any other C compilers available right now.

requiemderseele · 2 months

... Because list comprehensions are so obvious. It's also obvious that blocks should only contain a single expression... or that there should even be a difference between statements and expressions... and and and and...

They also threw out the "only one way" philosophy years and years ago, eg: string.join(words) (ugh... talk about backwards design) vs String.join(words, sep) vs String.joinfields(words, sep).

IOW, there's just as much bullshit in python as there is in ruby.

requiemderseele · 2 months

it's just a method call... anyone can define =~

requiemderseele · 2 months

emacs does it that way == matz does it that way

requiemderseele · 2 months

better? no. it's arbitrary. obviously.

emacs' ruby-mode lines them up... so we line them up.

requiemderseele · 2 months

No. There's no reason. Especially when you talk about using "self." for singleton methods (which I agree with) because it makes them easier to refactor and move around. Converting single quoted strings to double quoted strings is a waste of time, so just use double quoted strings for everything. Those who say they can't tell whether there is interpolation inside the string at first glance need to switch text editors.

requiemderseele · 2 months

Good concise writeup. I agree with 99% of this.

Just not the stupid single quoted strings thing.

da5idblacksun · 2 months

I add stories to it using the instapaper safari extension and reeder (desktop and ipad).

mortenaa · 2 months

Not true. We found it invaluable when one of those trolls moved on to ruby.

zenspider · 2 months

Object identity for #== is just an easy (and fast) default. You should do what is appropriate for whatever object you're implementing.

zenspider · 2 months

My answer: 98% of the time, yes. That's why it is in question. At least on my code it is 98% of the time but I have a very specific design/testing style, so I'm not counting myself.

zenspider · 2 months

So... you say the comments aren't clear. I ask how they're not clear and your response basically makes me assume that you didn't bother to read them.

##
# Fails unless +a+ contains the same contents as +b+, regardless
# of order.
#
#    assert_equal_unordered %w[a a b c], %w[a b c a] # pass
#
# NOTE: This uses Hash#== to determine collection equivalence, as
# such, do not expect it to behave the same as +assert_equal+.
#
#    assert_equal [1], [1.0]                         # pass
#    assert_equal({ 1 => true }, { 1.0 => true })    # fail
#    assert_equal_unordered [1], [1.0]               # fail

I did my best to spell out exactly how the thing works... to be as clear as possible. I guess I'll never be able to help that some people simply won't ever read past the first sentence.

zenspider · 2 months

How are the comments not clear to you?

zenspider · 2 months

nsfw??

renaebair · 2 months

Hrm... should I use for trademark infringement? :P

retardo · 2 months

And they're old enough to decide what is best for them.

mikeatwork · 2 months

Everyone?

retardo · 2 months

"The absence of a gemspec is a risk mitigation tactic."

4 in the TLDR... you couldn't even get to the 4th line? Really?

retardo · 2 months

Some developers are willing to take that risk, in order to test a recent bug fix or a new feature against their codebase.

And many many more will do it just for the fuck of it and then burden you with untimely and unwarranted issues.

azsromej · 2 months

It does. Very slow. And there is no incremental build so you rebuild everything when you add / modify one page. I'm addressing this in the next incarnation of zenweb, which is powering my blog, my website, and tenderlove's blog (soon).

I'm currently working on a template site that uses skeleton and has sensible defaults/styling... but pretty isn't my strongpoint so I'm going slow.

zenspider

TROPHY CASE

4 in the TLDR... you couldn't even get to the 4th line? Really?

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