[LRUG] Passing Multiple Blocks in Ruby

Paul Mucur mudge at mudge.name
Tue Jul 10 05:06:19 PDT 2012


Looks like it is up now: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/what-ruby-cant-do

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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