Ruby has dedicated keywords like if and else to define conditional logic. Other languages, like IO, use methods for conditional execution of code. Manfred shows how you can use a class in Ruby to do something similar.

Sam wonders whether Ruby and Rails are really ready for the Enterprise. In this episode Manfred answers this burning question and shows how you can make Ruby feel like Java.

This episode shows some syntactic improvements on the Function Composition code

Memoization is a technique for speeding up your code by caching the results of method calls. In this episode Norbert shows a Ruby implementation of mem...

In Ruby the & character maps to the to_proc method. In this episode Manfred shows what you can do with it and how it works.

The sort method in Ruby uses the boat operator, sometimes called ‘spaceship’, to compare object instances. In this episode Manfred shows how you ca...

Function composition is a common concept in functional programming languages. This first episode of ‘Ruby Banter’ shows you how to do it in Ruby.