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Is Ruby interpreted or compiled?(patshaughnessy.net)
3 points by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago|0 comments
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Journey to the center of JRuby(patshaughnessy.net)
4 points by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago|1 comments
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My first impression of Rubinius internals(patshaughnessy.net)
7 points by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago|0 comments
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Seeing double: how Ruby shares string values(patshaughnessy.net)
15 points by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago|0 comments
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Great questions! To be honest I don't have enough knowledge of the MRI internals yet to be able to answer these 100% correctly. Maybe I'll write a follow up post or an update to this one explaining these issues when I have time for more res
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Thanks a lot for the nice comments, guys! Sorry about the "link bait" - I really was just so surprised that the limit was 23, such a strange number, that I just had to put it in the title of the post. I didn't expect it to end up on HN.
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Thanks! Cool idea about recompiling with a new value for RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX - never thought of that! Yes, the inner unions/structs are used to tell the C compiler exactly where the different data values should go. They are in fact not an
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Cool! Thanks for taking the time to test this - while the idea of testing with unicode chars occurred to me while writing the post, I didn't have time to get to it...
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
I'd love to see it also
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
That's a great question. I suppose they split it up into separate requests since downloading all of the dependencies at the same time might end up being slow and returning a lot of data, especially for something like Rails with a lot of dep
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Wow... fascinating idea about "rake scaffoldhub:snapshot"! I really appreciate your feedback and encouragement. I definitely will continue working on scaffoldhub; probably my next step will be to open source the web site code (gem is alread
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Yes - this is an important concern, I agree. I hope that ratings/comments/reputation for scaffolds can help here. It's actually no different than installing a gem: you rely on the reputation of the gem author or else recommendations from ot
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Yes, I think scaffolding is primarily a helpful learning tool... especially for learning how to wire/connect different gems, javascript libraries, etc., together into a working example. Often no single gem will provide everything you need.
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Yea - there’s a lot of overlap with different things. Ryan’s screencasts on one hand, which are amazing even when out of date, and things like http://ruby-toolbox.com/ , which give you a list of gems to look at/choose from on the other. Pl
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Great idea; thanks! I do now have the option for each scaffold to link to a blog post somewhere... but hosting HTML demos is an interesting thought too.
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
I totally agree - however, I'm guessing even more experienced Rails developers might find scaffolding occasionally useful as a starting point... e.g. for learning how to use a certain JQuery plugin it's often hard to know even what JS files
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Great insight; hadn't thought of that before - thank you.
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Great ideas.. thanks a lot. I thought about this sort of thing, but for now only had enough time to implement a "blog post" link on each scaffold page, allowing the author to link to more info on their blog about what the scaffold does, or
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Great suggestion - thanks! I agree if there ever were many scaffolds on the site, choosing the right one to use will become much more difficult.
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by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago
Thanks everyone! Great suggestions and very encouraging... I'll have to sort out priorities/what to do next and find some more spare time to work on this :)
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Rails developers: would any of you find this useful?(scaffoldhub.org)
93 points by pat_shaughnessy 15y ago|49 comments