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Yechiel Kalmenson

I'm all for adorable names.

One of my favorite Ruby methods is Array.zip.

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Ben Halpern

Ruby's entire language is adorable. I wish the Ruby community had a mascot like the Go Gopher.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Yeah, I heard Ruby learned a lot from Perl so followed the convention of making after a precious stone.

I'm sure if it was written today it would have had an adorable name and a mascot to go along :)

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Ben Halpern

Stones can be cute

And Ruby is a pretty adorable name. I can think of two Ruby devs who named their daughters Ruby. I don't necessarily endorse this kind of commitment but I know it's a thing.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Yeah, I met Sean Griffin and his Ruby at rubyconf last year.

I also have a friend who's dog is named Ruby.

Not gofer level cute, but still adorable af

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Luis Silva • Edited

I want to share our logo from a ruby community we are from Oaxaca México
oaxaca.rb

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Yechiel Kalmenson

That is a really cool logo!

I'll have to visit someday :)

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Luis Silva

It would be great!

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Jon Bristow

How is Array.zip adorable? It's a standard sugar method in a bunch of languages.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

I just liked the visual of two arrays getting zipped together, something like a real-life zipper.

Yes, it exists in other languages as well, Ruby is just the first one I came across it, and the one I primarily work with nowadays.