Ruby5 #472

Ruby5 - Episode #472 - June 13th, 2014

• 5 Reasons Why Rubyist Will Love Swift
  • String Interpolation
  • Optional Binding & Implicit Returns
  • Keyword Arguments
  • Type Inference
  • Closures
• Add Some Jazz to Your Rails App
  • Pry, Awesome Print, Hirb, Pry Rails, Pry Doc, Pry Git, Pry Remote, Pry Debugger, Pry Stack Explorer, Coolline and Coderay
• Business gem
  • simple business date calculations in Ruby
  • holidays: ["01/01/2014", "03/01/2014"]
  • calendar.business_day?(Date.parse("Monday, 9 June 2014"))
• Invoker 1.2
  • Invoker is a replacement for pow and foreman
  • it also handles https
• Ruby for Good
  • 3 day hackathon and workships to do help make the world a better place with Ruby

♫ Jazz Hands by John Jacobson and Mac Huff

by SoundHound