I listened to a 6-hour interview with DHH, and one of the interesting parts to me as it relates to Ruby is this quote: “Matz went the complete opposite direction. He believes in humanity. He believes in the unlimited capacity of programmers to learn and become better so much so that he’s willing to put the stranger at his own level. Th...

I'm now on chapter 6 in Programming Ruby, but before I leave the topic of classes I want to share a few more details I find interesting about classes, starting with access control. Access Control In Ruby, we have three levels of access for methods. You probably are well aware of these terms, but I'll define them for completeness anyway...

I've had some time to read through to chapter 5 in Programming Ruby, and I've got a list of topics I want to write about, starting with classes in Ruby. There are a few details that I found quite interesting once I understood how Ruby works behind the scenes. As mentioned in my last post, Ruby is object-oriented, so let's take a look a...

Around the mid-2000s, I heard about Ruby on Rails. Even for someone like me whose primary focus is game development, I heard how it was making waves in the web development world. Eventually, the curiosity got the best of me; I had to see what it was all about! Unfortunately, I was not at a company where I could use Rails professionally...