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x.succ

[ “H”, “A”, “L” ].collect {|x| puts x.succ }
Prints out:
HAL, plus one letter up, equals IBM. Pretty funny.

Dave Thomas on Rails

A while ago I ordered a Ruby book entitled, “Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas” off amazon (bookpool was close on price). I read the first few chapters, got hung up on syntax and my interest was peaked.
One week later, a coworker says “Hey! Dave Thomas is speaking at NovaJUG!” (northern virginia java […]