Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB.

Small Ruby CLI Improvements (Part 1): Command-line Regex Debugging

January 2011, ruby · hints · irb · regex · zucker

This little method (now also available in zucker/debug) is useful for understanding and creating regexes:

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Little heplers for Ruby print debugging

September 2010, ruby · hints · irb · working-environment · one-liners · zucker

Not everyone likes debuggers. I rather print the debug values myself – it works and I do not need to learn a debugger :P

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How to properly check for your Ruby interpreter, version and OS

September 2010, ruby · gem · hints · tutorial · zucker

Zucker 4 adds accessors to some environment information:

OS: returns the current operating system
RubyEngine: returns the current Ruby implementation
RubyVersion: returns the current Ruby version

And here is how it works.

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New features of Ruby Zucker version 2 and 3

August 2010, ruby · ruby1-8 · ruby1-9 · gem · irb · zucker

The Zucker gem has gotten some new features. Installation is as easy as
gem install zucker
and
require 'zucker/all'

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Introducing Ruby Zucker - a new syntactical sugar gem

August 2010, ruby · ruby1-8 · ruby1-9 · gem · hints · tutorial · thoughts · regex · zucker

Zucker is a collection of lightweight scripts (cubes) that make Ruby even more beautiful: rubyzucker.info

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