Ruby
The Ultimate Guide to Gemfile and Gemfile.lock
In-depth overview of what a Gemfile is and how a Gemfile works.
Ruby 3.1 introduces Variable Width Allocation for Strings
In this blog let us understand how Variable Width Allocation works in RubyHow does Ruby manage memory?
Each programming language has its version of memory management so, let us look into how Ruby does this under the hood.
Ruby Fibers 101
Ruby 3 focuses more on concurrency with the introduction of Ruby Fibers and the Fiber Scheduler Interface.
Ruby 3.1 adds error highlighting gem
With changes in Ruby 3.1, we will be able to know which object is nil when an error gets raised.
Ruby 3.1 adds Class#subclasses
Ruby 3.1's new method Class#subclasses returns all classes directly from the receiver without adding singleton classes.
Ruby 3.1 adds Class#descendants
With Ruby 3.1, we can use `Class#descendants` to yield the classes that have been directly or indirectly derived from a specific class.Ruby 3.1 adds MatchData#match and MatchData#match_length
Ruby 3.1 MatchData#match returns the substring corresponding to the argument, while MatchData#match_length returns the length of the captured substring.
Ruby 3.1 allows value omission in hash literals
Ruby 3.1 adds the ability to use hash literals without having a value.
Ruby 3.1 adds try_convert method to Integer class for implicit conversions
try_convert for Integer will convert the object into an instance of the class via the implicit conversion method to_int and returns nil if no implicit conversion method is defined.