Interesting Things

• silly Ruby trick of the day — does anyone know what this does?

while gets
  print if /foo/
end

This is an example from the Ruby “Pickaxe” book. No respected Rubyist actually writes such difficult-to-understand and obfuscated code. Though, it was mentioned, that terse syntax like this is useful for command-line hacking.

• unstub! is a useful Rspec method that removes a stub from a previously stubbed object. This can be useful if you have stubbed, then mocked the same method, and you want to remove the stub.

• The unofficial community-developed iPhone app for Pivotal Tracker, is changing its name from iPivotal to PTCruiser. See the author’s Twitter for more.