Rubies for the holidays

Over the last two weeks I have been taking vacation and diving head first into my first major ruby language project.

Having never programed ruby before my gut reaction to the language is one word: awesome.

The only drawback to it is my own misunderstanding of the limits to the ‘magic’ of ruby. I definitely fell prey to some PHP-esque syntax that is no longer necessary.

My favorite so far: whatever is at the end of the action is returned.

# never mind that this is built it
def even (number)
  number % 2
end

@attr = even(2) {|r| r ? r : nil}

Biggest suprise: nil is an object and nil.id is 4

At any rate, programming a rake task in a ror application (Redmine) has been a fun and interesting challenge. I look forward to using ruby more in my problem solving and application building experiences.

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