Let’s see how we can do some basic operations with strings with 2 languages, starting with how we declare a string variable. This is Ruby vs Java!
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Ruby: my_string = "Playing with strings" Java: String my_string = "Playing with strings" |
As you may know Java is a strong typed language, which means you need to declare the variable type, Ruby infers the type from the contents. – […]
If you ever tried to write a scrapping tool you probably had to deal with parsing html. This task can be a bit difficult if you don’t have the right tools. Ruby has this wonderful library called Nokogiri, which makes html parsing a walk in the park. Let’s see some examples. First install the nokogiri […]
Let’s talk about how you can format strings in ruby. Why would you want to format a string? Well, you may want to do things like have a leading zero even if the number is under 10 (example: 01, 02, 03…), or have some console output nicely formatted in columns. In other languages you can […]
