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09/24/2020

03:45 PM Ruby Feature #17184: No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

Nice, it actually suits me.
I'll leave this issue open though, because I agree with what Benoit said above sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

01:33 PM Ruby Feature #17184: No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

String doesn't have dup method sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

12:24 PM Ruby Feature #17184: No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

Little more advanced, but common usecase, which also doesn't have built-in function is replacing all strings in simple way (i.e. gsub replacement, not sub replacement). sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

12:20 PM Ruby Feature #17184: No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

For now I'm using self-implemented function, but I wish there was something built-in:
```rb
class String
# Simple substitution, ignores backreferences in sub
# https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17184
def ssub(str, sub)
... sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

12:02 PM Ruby Feature #17184: No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

byroot (Jean Boussier) wrote in #note-2:
> The intended API for that is `String[]=`, e.g.
Is there a non-mutable version of this? sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

11:37 AM Ruby Feature #17184 (Assigned): No stdlib function to perform simple string replacement

I have following simple `build.rb`:
```rb
template = File.read('template.vim')
script = File.read('script.vim')
File.write('app.vim', template.gsub("SCRIPT", script))
```
And then following `template.vim`:
```vim
" some hea... sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

10/05/2017

06:21 PM Ruby Feature #5964: Make Symbols an Alternate Syntax for Strings

matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:
> In Ruby, Symbols annd Strings are different in both semantics and behavior (and implementation).
> ...
Did it change since ruby got frozen string? Is there much difference between frozen string and sy... sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

06:19 PM Ruby Feature #7792: Make symbols and strings the same thing

@shyouhei @matz Could this be revisited as ruby now has frozen strings? They behave pretty much the same as symbols.
Here's an article worth read: http://blog.arkency.com/could-we-drop-symbols-from-ruby/ sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)

07/10/2016

11:05 PM Ruby Feature #12581 (Closed): Incorporate ActiveSupport extensions (or their equivalents) into the stdlib

Hey,
The ruby developers are so used to ActiveSupport extensions used by Rails, its even hard for them to tell what's Ruby and what's Rails, as shown by: http://railshurts.com/quiz/
Maybe we could incorporate ActiveSupport extensio... sheerun (Adam Stankiewicz)