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The Secret to Rails OO Design - Literate Programming
I often tell people that I learned Ruby via Rails. This is pretty much the worst way to do it, but I'd learned so many programming languages by then that it didn't hinder me too much. The one thing that it did do, however, was give me a slightly t...
Ruby adds experimental support for end-less method definition
Ruby has added a new method definition syntax as an experimental feature.As to why:Ruby syntax is full of “end”s. I’m paranoid that the ends end Ruby. I hope Ruby is endless. So, I’d like to propose a new method definition syntax.- mame (Yusuke En...
Predicting the Future With Linear Regression in Ruby
The world is full of linear relationships. When one apple costs $1 and two apples cost $2, it's easy to figure out the price of any number of apples. But what happens when you have 100s of data points? What if your data source is noisy? That's whe...