02:25 <rapha> nakilon: now i will have to change all my code wherever possible to use String#[/.../] instead of String#match(/.../) wherever possible.

11:52 <horribleprogram> absolute Ruby beginner programmer

11:52 <horribleprogram> are the globals that are prepended with $ different from the ones that aren't?

11:52 <horribleprogram> example... $LOAD_PATH and ARGV

14:15 <ansimita> horribleprogram: globals without $ are constant https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0.0/doc/globals_rdoc.html

14:17 <ccooke> Sadly they didn't stay for an answer

14:19 <ansimita> ah, I missed that. At least I learned something from it.

14:24 <ccooke> (Technically, stuff like ARGV is not global. constants are scoped - ARGV for instance is actually Object::ARGV. In most situations, it's available because you're inheriting from Object)

15:08 <random-jellyfish> I have a sinatra related question:

15:09 <random-jellyfish> get '/victory' do

15:09 <random-jellyfish> if session[:id]

15:09 <random-jellyfish> session[:id]="1"

15:09 <random-jellyfish> return "not nil #{session[:id]}"

15:09 <random-jellyfish> else

15:09 <random-jellyfish> return "nil"

15:09 <random-jellyfish> end

15:09 <random-jellyfish> end

15:10 <random-jellyfish> I want to set a cookie

15:10 <random-jellyfish> by assigning 1 to session[:id]

15:10 <random-jellyfish> the problem is that after I refresh the page I don't see it set

15:10 <random-jellyfish> the code I pasted above is wrong

15:11 <random-jellyfish> I wanted to do session[:id]="1" in the else branch right before return

15:11 <random-jellyfish> does anybody know why this doesn't work?

15:32 <rapha> adam12: i see now why you said it would be overkill. 20 lines vs. 1 line for nakilon's regex solution. but somehow really cool, too. and you even turned it into a little command line program! interestingly it also has a similar bug as the first attempt you made ... not just with whitespace, but also with punctuation. wasn't able to fix it yet, but put some debugging output in to make it a little easier to play

15:32 <rapha> with: https://gist.github.com/sixtyfive/03b90ccac4ec7556dc8859e5f55f8cdf

16:13 <adam12> rapha: Yeah, I tested it a little bit, but matching on `\b` might be rong.

16:14 <adam12> random-jellyfish: What about `session["id"]`

16:14 <adam12> random-jellyfish: Depending on the serialization mechanism, symbols (:id) won't make it through the serialization/deserialization process, but strings will.

16:20 <random-jellyfish> got it to work

16:20 <random-jellyfish> i was doing "enable :sesionsss"

16:20 <random-jellyfish> a typo

16:21 <random-jellyfish> no error or warning about it :))

16:21 <random-jellyfish> it works with symbols too

16:24 <adam12> random-jellyfish: Cool. Not every serialization mechanism works with symbols (but might handle it for you transparently). The one in Roda specifically requires strings, IIRC.