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This page contains Ruby live code examples that we thought were interesting.

The following code examples were taken from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.

Reading a web page

This code example was taken from chapter 3, section 4.

require 'net/http'
Net::HTTP.start( 'www.ruby-lang.org', 80 ) do |http|
    print( http.get( '/en/LICENSE.txt' ).body )
end

Arrays of Hashes

This code example was taken from chapter 4, section 4.

kitty_toys = [
   {:shape => 'sock', :fabric => 'cashmere'},
   {:shape => 'mouse', :fabric => 'calico'},
   {:shape => 'eggroll', :fabric => 'chenille'}
]

kitty_toys.sort_by { |toy| toy[:shape] }.each do |toy|
   puts "Blixy has a #{ toy[:shape] } made of #{ toy[:fabric] }" 
end

Output

Blixy has a eggroll made of chenille
Blixy has a mouse made of calico
Blixy has a sock made of cashmere

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