[LRUG] Passing Multiple Blocks in Ruby

Murray Steele murray.steele at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 01:08:51 PDT 2012


It was mostly live coding in smalltalk and lisp.  Our hosts, Skills Matter,
have filmed it so it should be available later this week.  If I remember,
I'll tweet it when they go up (@lrug).  Otherwise, keep watching this page:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/happier-deploments or this one:
http://lanyrd.com/2012/lrug-july/.

Cheers,

Muz

On 10 July 2012 04:57, Steven Deobald <steven at c42.in> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I gave a talk at RubyConf India[1] which sounds similar to Pablo's
> presentation.
>
> Do you have a link to his slides, by any chance?
>
> [1] "clojure is my favourite ruby": http://vimeo.com/42720839
>
> Steven Deobald
> C42 -- www.c42.in -- www.rubymonk.com
>
>
>
> On 10 July 2012 04:04, Paul Mucur <mudge at mudge.name> wrote:
>
>> Hot on the heels of Pablo's presentation tonight ("What Ruby Can't
>> Do"), somewhat annealed by the Slaughtered Lamb's wares and keen to
>> exercise some of the thornier corners of Ruby's syntax (particularly
>> from 1.9 onwards), I present the following for your consideration:
>> "Implementing if in Ruby"
>> http://mudge.github.com/2012/07/09/implementing-if-in-ruby.html
>>
>> I explain in detail in the post but I've whipped up a small gem called
>> "if" that allows you to do the following were you feeling so inclined:
>>
>>   some_predicate.if ->{ "I'm true!" }, else: ->{ "I'm false!" }
>>
>> The whole thing is tongue-in-cheek (using such code in production is
>> probably tantamount to treason) but does make me wonder how many of
>> Ruby's keywords could be removed.
>>
>> -- mudge
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