Why I felt in love with Ruby

[tulamide]

I started programming back in the days when oop was just a wish. Since then, I worked with a lot of oop-oriented languages, but Ruby is the first that really fascinates me for its ease of use. Let's have a look at this (its not the full code, just an excerpt):

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@example.each_line.with_index do |s, i|
      @value[i * 4 + 2] = s.chomp.split(" ").each {|s| s.capitalize!}.join " "
end

This is so close to the way human beings think, that I currently can't imagine any other language doing it better. Besides, these 3 lines of code represent what would have been dozens of code lines 20 years ago. But what is happening here?
A string input is said to be looped for each line of text, additionly giving an index. An array is told to store each line seperately. But that line of text is heavily altered. First, it gets rid of any control signs (like CR, LF, etc.) using chomp. Then that result line is split into single words using split with space as seperator. Those single words are now looped and each of them changed to start with a capital letter. And lastly all of them are joined together again, again using space as seperator. See? I can't even describe it as short as its written in Ruby while still instantly recognizable.
Awesome!

[MyCo]

PHP:

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$foo = ucwords(trim($foo));

trim = remove whitespace
ucwords = uppercase words

PHP is quite old but still beats the crap out of the newcomers

[tulamide]

PHP:

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$foo = ucwords(trim($foo));

trim = remove whitespace
ucwords = uppercase words

PHP is quite old but still beats the crap out of the newcomers

To keep it fair, you just took a small part of the above

Your example in Ruby:

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@foo.split.map(&:capitalize).join

doesn't even need an assignment But yes, that PHP code is pretty cool.

[MyCo]

Ever tried ruby's string mangling stuff on German Umlauts? You'd be surprised

[tulamide]

Ever tried ruby's string mangling stuff on German Umlauts? You'd be surprised

I knew before that all the good stuff is limited to ASCII-7, and Flowstone doesn't allow us to use encodings

Have you ever tried to enter a german umlaut in the ruby editor?

[cathleenwitmer]

So i have a question, its says i the manual that ruby can access functions from 3rd party dll's so do you think text to speech and speech synthesis could be brought in to flow stone apps/plugs? it something Ive been interested in for a while! soz to digress!