Archive for the ‘ruby’ tag
The Ruby Console’s help() command
I am writing this blog post offline on my flight to Austin via Atlanta. I am working on a Rails application and I needed to look at the different methods available for ruby Arrays. And I didn’t take an offline copy of the Rails or Ruby documentation. But I thought that perhaps Ruby would have something similar to Python’s dir() command, which is essentially a function in the python console that returns a list of possible functions and meta information for a given type.
3… 2… 1… COMMIT!!!
This past weekend, I participated with the Open Source Connections (O19s) team of Eric Pugh, Jim Nist, and Michael Herndon, in RailsRumble!
Check out our entry, Fish4Brains: http://takemeaway.railsrumble.com and vote for us!
I’ll have more details about this project, the underlying technologies, and stories from working on a 2-day project.