code and style

Ruby Code and Style is a new on-line magazine about, you guessed it, programming with Ruby.

I am a bit annoyed and yet pleased at all the attention and hype Ruby is getting via Ruby on Rails. I'm still smitten with the language, and have been since Cory put me onto it (before Rails existed). We use it for system scripting here at work, and I haven't found anything to complain about it for that purpose.

Having said that, it isn't perfect for everything. Ben is also an enthusiastic Ruby scripter, but his experiments with using Ruby as an in-game scripting language have shown that it really needs a byte-code compiler before it will be suitable for that purpose. For now, the in-game scripting role is comfortable filled by Lua. I have a bone to pick with Lua, but I'll save that for a future post...