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I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink (lemmy.ml)

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[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

days is a method on the Numeric class in Rails, and it creates an instance of ActiveSupport::Duration with self passed to the constructor (this is a bit of a simplification, because it actually calls the class method days on Duration which converts the number of days into seconds before creating the Duration instance).

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Oh god good ol ActiveSupport. I'm having flashbacks of so many ruby projects trying not to bring it in and basically reinventing it but poorly documented.

I still would say it was the language I've most enjoyed (professionally used most all higher level languages over 20+ years) but it might be nostalgia for a time early 2010s when rails was just freaking magic compared to the ways we used to build web apps.