What can I say about _why the lucky stiff? The man’s a rock star, and his speech was as much a performance as a lecture.
Part of his talk was about the ‘splat’ operator *, and how it can be used to write more succinct code, like here. Another super example was
m, *sub = *str.match /REGEXP/
Er, I’m not sure I remember how that one works, but I’ll be sure to try it next time I need a regexp.
_why talked for a bit about characters on the Ruby mailing list, and how Matz1 is a really chilled out kind of guy.
Then on to the technical part of his presentation, where he demonstrated his Sandbox module by showing two Rails apps running in a single instance of Mongrel. It looks like this could be really handy stuff.
fn1. Creator of Ruby.
