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Ruby Game of Life with matrices

A little while ago I wrote this implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Ruby. It's based on this Game of Life in APL video, which I think is rather elegant, though a bit dense. Feel free to give ...
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Ruby implementation of Conway's Game of Life

I'm just starting with Ruby and decided to do two different implementations of Conway's Game of Life. In this first one I'm not using cells as a separate class and instead just track everything as a ...
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Encoding special characters in URLs with Ruby

I have the following Ruby code snippet: url = "http://somewiki.com/index.php?book=#{author}:#{title}&action=edit" encoded = URI.encode(url) encoded.gsub(/&/, "%26").sub(/%26action/, ...
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Which of these implementations is considered cleaner?

I've got a simple sinatra webapp that pulls data from Pinboard's RSS api, parses the info, and re-displays it. There are 4 tasks I need to perform with the data: I need to remove all instances of a ...
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Is this good Ruby?

This is the "codebreaker" game in Ruby, tell me what I can make better! #!/usr/bin/env ruby class Sequence attr_accessor :guess, :code def initialize puts "Type the difficulty level you ...
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Ruby function to join array with commas and a conjunction

Should take an array such as ['dog', 'cat', 'bird', 'monkey'] and return 'dog, cat, bird and monkey'. Looking for a more elegant solution. def self.english_join(array) return nil if array.nil? ...
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What if any design issues are there in this method of loading configuration data from YAML in Ruby?

I am actually pretty excited about this approach, but for sanity's sake I wanted to hear some thoughts on others on my strategy here. My basic goal is to parse a YAML file and recursively create ...
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String substitutions in ruby and coding style

I wrote a short ruby script to generate various screenshots, and event though I am not completely new to ruby I rarely use it. Full script (41 LOC): https://gist.github.com/1229115 The string ...