Charles Maxwood

All right. Well, thanks for coming.

All right. Well, thanks for coming.

Thank you. All right. Till next time, folks. Max out.

Thank you. All right. Till next time, folks. Max out.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast. This week on our panel, we have John Epperson. Hello, everybody. Luke Stutters. Hello. I'm Charles Maxwood from devchat.tv. Just want to shout out, go check out devinfluencers.com if you're looking to be a dev influencer. I guess that's pretty straightforward. We have a special guest this week, and that's Valentino Stoll.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast. This week on our panel, we have John Epperson. Hello, everybody. Luke Stutters. Hello. I'm Charles Maxwood from devchat.tv. Just want to shout out, go check out devinfluencers.com if you're looking to be a dev influencer. I guess that's pretty straightforward. We have a special guest this week, and that's Valentino Stoll.

Valentino, do you want to introduce yourself? Let everybody know why you're awesome and all that good stuff.

Valentino, do you want to introduce yourself? Let everybody know why you're awesome and all that good stuff.

Nice. So we have you on the docket to talk about the hidden gems of Ruby's IRB. But before we dive into that, you said embedded systems with Ruby. So are you using, what is it, mRuby for that?

Nice. So we have you on the docket to talk about the hidden gems of Ruby's IRB. But before we dive into that, you said embedded systems with Ruby. So are you using, what is it, mRuby for that?

Gross Python. Anyway, so yeah, we'll send people over to your Raspberry Pi Ruby stuff because that's just cool stuff. In fact, we should just get you back to nerd out with that on. Anyway. Sure.

Gross Python. Anyway, so yeah, we'll send people over to your Raspberry Pi Ruby stuff because that's just cool stuff. In fact, we should just get you back to nerd out with that on. Anyway. Sure.

But yeah, let's talk about IRB because it's a tool that we kind of all go to, whether we realize that it's the Rails console kind of runs on top of IRB or whether we just run it ourselves and then run stuff in it.

But yeah, let's talk about IRB because it's a tool that we kind of all go to, whether we realize that it's the Rails console kind of runs on top of IRB or whether we just run it ourselves and then run stuff in it.

Why don't we kind of go with kind of a high-level overview of what IRB is for people who are just getting into Ruby, and then we can just assume that people know it and use it, and we can dive into, okay, stuff you didn't know about, right?

Why don't we kind of go with kind of a high-level overview of what IRB is for people who are just getting into Ruby, and then we can just assume that people know it and use it, and we can dive into, okay, stuff you didn't know about, right?

So, yeah, I don't want to go too deep into, you know, what it is. And you kind of connected the dots, I guess, on how it evaluates code. But I'm always looking for kind of the neat tricks, right? Yeah. So let's start there. And then if we have time, we can come back around to internals or other things that you learned while you dove into this. Sure. So what are the neat tricks?

So, yeah, I don't want to go too deep into, you know, what it is. And you kind of connected the dots, I guess, on how it evaluates code. But I'm always looking for kind of the neat tricks, right? Yeah. So let's start there. And then if we have time, we can come back around to internals or other things that you learned while you dove into this. Sure. So what are the neat tricks?

Like what were the things that you didn't know it did that it does?

Like what were the things that you didn't know it did that it does?