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How can I make an easy to understand subtraction accumulator?

I'm currently following the tutorials over at RubyMonk, and one of the problems I need to solve is to write a subtract function that would meet these conditions: invoking subtract(4, 5) should ...
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Count comments and lines of code in ruby

Hi I wrote a small script as an answer for a stack overflow question, that counts lines of code and comments (in C and C++ style). f = File.open("test.txt") loc = 0 comments = 0 while line = f.gets ...
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Best Practices: Assigning a class to a variable for readability in Ruby

I recently found myself writing the following: task :spec do |t, args| require_relative 'spec/helper' helper = Library::Specs::Helper helper.start_coverage if condition ...
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Ruby style review

I am about to start a very large project in Ruby. To get myself in the Ruby mindset I have been doing all of my homework and other side work in Ruby. I am hoping that some of you who know Ruby very ...
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Is this an appropriate class design for the strategy pattern in Ruby?

I am fairly satisfied with my solution here but I would definitely appreciate any constructive criticism of my style and design. The basic idea is to use the strategy pattern to simplify assembling a ...
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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 ...