Ruby

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Ruby 1.9.3 Released!

Ruby 1.9.3-p0 has been released.  No release candidates, betas or preview releases, this is the final thing.  If you've been putting off looking at the 1.9.3 branch, now is the ...
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Throw and Catch

Here's a Ruby feature you've probably never heard of, never used or haven't thought about in quite some time:  throw and catch.  But before you get all excited about an ...
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Exceptions

Not everything goes right all of the time.  Maybe 99% of the time, but there will always be that one time that something goes wrong.  A router is down and ...
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Loops, Loops, Loops

If you've worked in languages like C, you're quite familiar with loops.  The 'for' loop, the 'while' loop...  Actually, that's about all C has.  Ruby, on the other hand, has ...
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Keyword Arguments, Coming Soon!

Once you understand the case equality operator, a whole new slew of uses for Ruby's case statement opens up.  If you're thinking of it as a C-style switch statement, you're ...
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