June 2010
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Stop adding methods to Symbol just to make your...
I remember the first time I saw Datamapper.
I liked saying “:something.gt something_else”.
It was pretty.
But after a while I realised it wasn’t necessary.
So why are we still building APIs that involve extending Symbol?
I saw this on an extension called Plucky for MongoMapper
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Ruby Enterprise Edition still faster than Ruby...
With Ruby 1.9.2 due to ship on July 31st, I thought I’d take Ruby 1.9.2 preview 3 for a spin.
A quick…
rvm install ruby-1.9.2-preview3
gem install rails prawn erubis
… and we’re done.
But is it any faster than REE?
What does it mean to be faster?
Perhaps all I care about is how fast my tests run
rvm use ruby-1.9.2-preview3
time rake
rvm use ree
time rake
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