Points learned!

Good points learned during the course of time.

Lesson 1 (Ruby Fundamentals)

• The symbol form of operators &&, || have higher precedence than assignment operator = while the assignment operator = has higher precedence than or, and, not.
• The reflective method local_variables of module Kernel lists the local variables in that context as an array of strings.
• arg1 || arg2 returns arg1 unless arg1 is false. A common idiom is to use || to assign a value to a variable only if that variable isn’t already set  – @variable = @variable || “default value”
• In Ruby, everything is true except the reserved words false and nil.

Lesson-2(Ruby Methods):

• The statement arg1=”x”, arg2=”y”, arg3=”z” is equivalent to arg1 = [x, arg2="y", arg3="z"].
• Variable have higher precedence than methods. When there’s a “name-clash” Ruby uses first the variable. One can  coerce Ruby to call the method by issuing name().

Lesson-3, 4(Blocks/Files):

• Blocks are not objects, but they can be converted into objects of class Proc. This can be done by calling the lambda method of the module Kernel.The class Proc has a method call that invokes the block.
• The expression #{} is evaluated in double quote strings and not in single quote strings.

Lesson-6 (Open Classes):

• In Ruby, we can always add methods to an existing class. The good practice is to create a subclass of the original class and override parent’s method or add new one.

Advertisement