I've been developing for Ruby 1.9 exclusively since December. It does unicode right, it does block parameters and local scope right, and it's fast. It's also been stable for six months. What is everyone waiting for?
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Modal web frameworks offer a simpler and more natural way to implement some web workflows in code. They've been around for decades and a few of them are written in Ruby. So, why aren't we using them? I wanted to find out, so I made my own.
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Here's a little gem I've been working on that just might be ready to show it's face in public:
http://github.com/jedediah/print_members/tree/master
For the most part, the info comes from Ruby's reflection features but it also parses source files to get method parameters, which is surprisingly non-slow.
The gem can be installed directly from github:
I'm taking suggestions for a more fun name.
http://github.com/jedediah/print_members/tree/master
It's an interactive doodad for Ruby 1.9 that probes a class/module and shows you just about everything there is to know about it, in pretty colors. I find that about every second or third line I enter in IRB is a call to this thing.
For the most part, the info comes from Ruby's reflection features but it also parses source files to get method parameters, which is surprisingly non-slow.
The gem can be installed directly from github:
gem install \ --source http://gems.github.com \ jedediah-print_members
I'm taking suggestions for a more fun name.