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0 pointsaelzeiny4y ago0 comments

> I dislike all the magic of rails.

This is my #2 problem with Ruby, and it's also the reason why a lot of folk love it. I think of macros in the same way I think of RegEx, if you're writing one you better hope it works perfectly because chances are that you'll be the only one to maintain it.

Other Ruby "features" that I dislike:

1. Blocks + Procs + Lambdas are all function-adjacent. Can't we just call them functions?

3. Out of bounds indexes on Arrays/Maps return nil.

4. method_missing() is super cool and super abusive. Again it feels like magic when functions come from nothing.

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Toutouxc4y ago

> Blocks + Procs + Lambdas are all function-adjacent. Can't we just call them functions?

Well, Ruby has functions, they're just called Procs. Lambdas are a special, more strict breed of Procs, and blocks are just (pretty complex) syntax sugar for passing a Proc to a method. The main function-like concept is always a Proc.

> Out of bounds indexes on Arrays/Maps return nil.

Calling the #[] or #slice method on an Array with an out-of bound index returns nil, calling the #fetch method raises an IndexError or returns an arbitrary default value. You can use whichever suits the situation.

tcoff914y ago

Ruby on Rails is awesome to write, horrible to maintain. It’s the fastest way to build a web app but good luck with staying productive once you have 100 engineers working on it and a million lines of rails soup to wrangle.

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