How to break out from a ruby block?

Use the keyword next. If you do not want to continue to the next item, use break. When next is used within a block, it causes the block to exit immediately, returning control to the iterator method, which may then begin a new iteration by invoking the block again: When used in a block, break … Read more

How to understand strptime vs. strftime

The difference between Time and DateTime has to do with implementation. A large amount of the DateTime functionality comes from the Rails world and is an arbitrary date with time of day. It’s more of a calendar-based system. Time is measured as seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC and is time-zone agnostic. On some systems it is limited to values between 1901 and … Read more

What is java interface equivalent in Ruby?

Ruby has Interfaces just like any other language. Note that you have to be careful not to conflate the concept of the Interface, which is an abstract specification of the responsibilities, guarantees and protocols of a unit with the concept of the interface which is a keyword in the Java, C# and VB.NET programming languages. In Ruby, we use the … Read more

Difference between “and” and && in Ruby?

and is the same as && but with lower precedence. They both use short-circuit evaluation. WARNING: and even has lower precedence than = so you’ll usually want to avoid and. An example when and should be used can be found in the Rails Guide under “Avoiding Double Render Errors“.