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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 ...
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split post string into hash (ruby)
if(env['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
$post = {}
post = env['rack.input'].read.split('&')
post_split = Array.new
post.each{|x| post_split << x.split('=')}
post_split.each{|x|
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Ruby: refactor simple string method for aligning DSV text
GOAL:
Accept DSV strings where the delimiter may consist of more than one character
Accept DSV strings where there are no embedded delimiters
Output text with no modification to the source string ...
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How to refactor this Ruby method?
The new_string code in this method does not seem idiomatic.
The goal is to not mutate the string passed in, which I believe is a good practice.
This method changes all URL's in the string into an ...
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votes
2answers
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Simplify series of string manipulations in Ruby
I have a series of string manipulation, I realize this with the following code. I want it to be more elegant and readable such as str.sub_heading().sub_codeblock()..., how could I rewrite my code?
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vote
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Words counter with a hash
My problem is the following: I wrote a method, which counts words and returns a hash. There is a Ruby idiom which was found by me in some of the forums discussions, which I don't understand.
Here is ...
