Discussion on: It's Ruby, There Must Be a Better Way

[Nick Cinger]

Not even a Ruby dev, but this was a good read. Interesting challenge and nifty solution :D

[Ryan Palo]

Thanks! Yeah, when I first read through the challenge, I didn’t think it was going to be that hard. I was wrong.

[Ben Halpern]

I think Ruby is fundamentally interesting, simple and fun. If it weren't for Rails it would still be known as more of a delightful hobbyist language.

[Ryan Palo]

Yeah, and a pretty powerful scripting/automation language too, for server-side stuff. A lot more readable and maintainable than Bash, a lot of times.