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authorPer Lilja <perlilja@gmail.com>2015-10-21 13:28:36 +0200
committerPer Lilja <perlilja@gmail.com>2015-10-21 13:28:36 +0200
commit3f8b067a0cace44bb43bdd08561b0efc747fb26c (patch)
tree1e17c3f1968f7b2f97ea9f84ca0098224ff60786 /ruby.html.markdown
parentd1a822f96c88855b2cbb649a4ea7b452e4104164 (diff)
parentef6973b13f50063462d28a96ac57e93aed40844c (diff)
Merge pull request #1 from adambard/master
Update fork
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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown
index 8f23b2e6..998b4bf7 100644
--- a/ruby.html.markdown
+++ b/ruby.html.markdown
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ contributors:
- ["Dzianis Dashkevich", "https://github.com/dskecse"]
- ["Levi Bostian", "https://github.com/levibostian"]
- ["Rahil Momin", "https://github.com/iamrahil"]
-
+ - ["Gabriel Halley", "https://github.com/ghalley"]
+ - ["Persa Zula", "http://persazula.com"]
---
```ruby
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ You shouldn't either
10 * 2 #=> 20
35 / 5 #=> 7
2**5 #=> 32
+5 % 3 #=> 2
+5 ^ 6 #=> 3
# Arithmetic is just syntactic sugar
# for calling a method on an object
@@ -106,8 +109,20 @@ placeholder = 'use string interpolation'
'hello ' + 3 #=> TypeError: can't convert Fixnum into String
'hello ' + 3.to_s #=> "hello 3"
-# print to the output
+# Combine strings and operators
+'hello ' * 3 #=> "hello hello hello "
+
+# Append to string
+'hello' << ' world' #=> "hello world"
+
+# print to the output with a newline at the end
puts "I'm printing!"
+#=> I'm printing!
+#=> nil
+
+# print to the output without a newline
+print "I'm printing!"
+#=> I'm printing! => nill
# Variables
x = 25 #=> 25
@@ -154,6 +169,7 @@ array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
# Arrays can be indexed
# From the front
array[0] #=> 1
+array.first #=> 1
array[12] #=> nil
# Like arithmetic, [var] access
@@ -164,6 +180,7 @@ array.[] 12 #=> nil
# From the end
array[-1] #=> 5
+array.last #=> 5
# With a start index and length
array[2, 3] #=> [3, 4, 5]
@@ -258,6 +275,12 @@ hash.each do |key, value|
puts "#{key} is #{value}"
end
+# If you still need and index you can use "each_with_index" and define an index
+# variable
+array.each_with_index do |element, index|
+ puts "#{element} is number #{index} in the array"
+end
+
counter = 1
while counter <= 5 do
puts "iteration #{counter}"
@@ -269,6 +292,19 @@ end
#=> iteration 4
#=> iteration 5
+# There are a bunch of other helpful looping functions in Ruby,
+# for example "map", "reduce", "inject", the list goes on. Map,
+# for instance, takes the array it's looping over, does something
+# to it as defined in your block, and returns an entirely new array.
+array = [1,2,3,4,5]
+doubled = array.map do |element|
+ element * 2
+end
+puts doubled
+#=> [2,4,6,8,10]
+puts array
+#=> [1,2,3,4,5]
+
grade = 'B'
case grade