The Ruby repl that has long shipped with Macs is a real pleasure to use.
Often if I just need to do a thing, I type irb (which stands for Interactive Ruby) into my terminal and then I'm cooking with gas. And by "do a thing", I mean coding to solve a quick problem.
I need to add some numbers together? irb2332 + 32312 + 3233
I need to count the characters in some text? irb"some text".count
I need to capitalize some text? irb"some text".upcase"
There are a lot of apps which each solve problems that are actually most easily solved with a really basic programming language like Ruby and irb tends to make it simple enough that it's the tool of choice a lot of the time.
Yesss! Irb ftw. It's so easy to load up something and test a piece of code. I love using it to run test cases on the spot. It gives me a much better and faster feedback loop then trying to go through a web browser. Or wait for tests to pass.
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The Ruby repl that has long shipped with Macs is a real pleasure to use.
Often if I just need to do a thing, I type
irb(which stands for Interactive Ruby) into my terminal and then I'm cooking with gas. And by "do a thing", I mean coding to solve a quick problem.I need to add some numbers together?
irb2332 + 32312 + 3233I need to count the characters in some text?
irb"some text".countI need to capitalize some text?
irb"some text".upcase"There are a lot of apps which each solve problems that are actually most easily solved with a really basic programming language like Ruby and
irbtends to make it simple enough that it's the tool of choice a lot of the time.+1 to this!
If I'm given logs with UNIX Timestamps I'll often toss them into IRB to convert.
I don't use Ruby as much anymore, but it's still my go to for things like this! Thanks Ruby. 😊
Yesss! Irb ftw. It's so easy to load up something and test a piece of code. I love using it to run test cases on the spot. It gives me a much better and faster feedback loop then trying to go through a web browser. Or wait for tests to pass.