February 2012 – Joel Holder's Code Compendium

Extend Ruby Enumerables With An EachN Processor

Here’s a useful enhancement to arrays that allows you to process elements in a block n at a time. N is inferred by the arity of your block signature. Namaste…

Sleek CLI wrappers around Ruby libs

When using Ruby’s splat operator for method invocation, eg. my_method(*my_array), it takes the array and blows it out into the parameters required to fill the method’s signature. This makes it super easy to call methods from classes via the command line, by simply passing the arguments (ARGV) to a Ruby command line app and thenContinue reading “Sleek CLI wrappers around Ruby libs”