T S Vallender

Just used “ensure” in Ruby exception handling for—I think—the first time. Immediately got confused by it! Even if it’s the last thing occurring in a method, the last line isn’t the return value of the method unless you explicitly return it. I presume things are getting handed back up the stack in a way that loses the value, but should investigate the behaviour to understand it when I have time.

Read through Avdi Grimm’s Exceptional Ruby. I don’t think there was much in there new to me but it cemented a few things and touched on some more obscure nuggets I’ve not come across before.

I'm not a fan of most of RSpec's DSL, so appreciated this article from Test Double suggesting the use of Ruby 3's endless method syntax instead of using let.

def foo = bar.new

instead of

let foo { bar.new }

Not considered that before, and combined with using instance variables instead of let!, it reinforces and makes more obvious the difference.

Signed up for First Ruby Friend after Brighton Ruby and have just been matched to someone! First chat tomorrow.