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The Evils of the For Loop

This is a reminder of the reasons why we should avoid the for loop Ruby provides…

RegexpChallenge

I want to share a trivial challenge and response library I whipped up for practicing regular expressions…

String Has Other Methods Besides =~ and sub()

There are some fun tricks you can perform on String objects even without reaching for regular expressions. Here are just a few…

Do I Need (These Parentheses()?)

I want to clarify the age old question of when it's allowed to drop the parentheses in Ruby. I'll do that with both a simple and expanded set of rules…