BostonRB Intro - November 2012

In which I go over some awesome new things about Ruby 2.0 and threaten the crowd with a crazy cat man.

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1. BostonRB November 13, 2012
4. Thanks!
5. Also Thanks!
6. Also Thanks! Will Mernagh, Eric Kidd, Dan McClain, William Josephson, Brian Cardarella, Wyatt Greene, Mark Bates, Scott Schulthess, Matte Noble, Kareem Kouddous, Barun Singh, and Ben Orenstein.
7. Upcoming Events 12.4: Project Night 12.11: Main Meeting 2.??: Rails Bridge Boston
8. Schedule! Rapid App Prototyping - Pascal Rettig 5-10 minute break - Everyone Announcements - Every Company Hiring ElasticSearch - Maurício Linhares Drinks - Trade
9. 83 Days Since the last Ruby Drama™
10. RUBY 2.0 (With puppies)
11. Matz is Nice so we are Nice
13. Refinements
14. module ActiveSupport refine String do def camelize(first_letter = :upper) case first_letter when :upper then ActiveSupport::Inflector.camelize(self, true) when :lower then ActiveSupport::Inflector.camelize(self, false) end end end end module ActionDispatch module Routing class RouteSet using ActiveSupport def controller_reference(controller_param) unless controller = @controllers[controller_param] controller_name = "#{controller_param.camelize}Controller" controller = @controllers[controller_param] = ActiveSupport::Dependencies.ref(controller_name) end controller.get end end end end http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-practice/
16. Keyword Arguments
17. def foo(str: "foo", num: 424242) [str, num] end foo(str: 'buz', num: 9) #=> ['buz', 9] foo(str: 'bar') # => ['bar', 424242] foo # => ['foo', 424242] foo(bar: 'buz') # => ArgumentError http://brainspec.com/blog/2012/10/08/keyword-arguments-ruby-2-0/
19. Module#prepend
20. module FooBar def hello puts 2 super end end class Foo def hello puts 'hello' end end class Bar < Foo prepend FooBar def hello puts 1 super end end Bar.new.hello 2 1 "hello" http://dev.af83.com/2012/10/19/ruby-2-0-module-prepend.html
22. USE RUBY 2.0.0.preview1 NOW!!!! or else...
23. We release Joe Grossberg.