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Ryan Davis
Personal blog · blog.zenspider.comprogramming
Ryan Davis writes zenspider.com, a personal blog at blog.zenspider.com about programming. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “What are block args?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Ryan Davis's posts on Ruby tooling, such as the Oh My Gems script and Ruby's Lisp-derived design. The comments discuss the RVM 2.0 project and ruby_parser, not the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ryan Davis' website with Ruby facts, opinions, source code, links, and stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- What are block args?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-28
What Hacker News says?
The number that got my attention was 20,000. That really seems extreme. What about the 40-liner Oh My Gems![1] And I wonder about the performance implications of porting all that shell script to ruby. Even running a single ruby command with a large set of gems increases loading time dramatically.[2] 1. http://blog.zenspider.com/blog/2012/09/ohmygems.html 2. https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/388758868559290368
Comment linking /blog/2012/09/ohmygems.html
on “RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into Ruby [Fundraiser]”Submitted Rubygems now has plugins as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI'd be interested if the author had any thoughts on the ruby_parser project's unresolved issues of S-expression use in ruby 1.9, as at http://blog.zenspider.com/blog/2012/08/what-are-block-args-.... (not my project, but something I'd like to use once they've solved all this - I know the author of the above link was looking for input).
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/what-are-block-args-.html
on “How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp”Submitted Some reasons why I left the ACM as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rubygems 1.8 is coming as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Way Ruby 1.9 Drives Me Nuts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fat code is slow code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby unit testing framework minitest version 5.0.0 has been released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are block args? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flay is blowing my mind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minitest version 1.3.0 has been released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To gem or not to gem? (Minitest::Debugger) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crazy Singleton Methods as a story · 1 points
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