Paul Battley

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Paul Battley’s blog, publishing since 2002

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I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

2026526 points514 comments Software Engineering details

I’ve decided to archive the source code of my Ruby gems to make it clear that I’m no longer working on them; I’ve written this post to link from them in order to explain why.

Ruby’s magic underscore

2012113 points34 comments Software Engineering details

I discovered today that Ruby treats underscores a little bit differently when it comes to variable names.