Monthly Archives: August 2010

remember to test bash aliases

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Evan Gates

My linux vm reminded me of the importance of testing bash aliases before adding them to the .bash_aliases file. This was the mistake: alias local=’git checkout local’ The next time I opened a terminal, I received this wonderful message: bash: … Continue reading →

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you can escape spaces when using ruby’s %w operator

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Evan Gates

Discovered something cool about ruby’s %w operator the other day. You can escape spaces in it. %w{there will be four\ elements} evaluates to: [‘there’, ‘will’, ‘be’, ‘four elements’] Just a little neat tidbit I haven’t seen in any examples.

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