Pat Allan

Thinking Sphinx v4 has just been released. This feature is an evolution on the 3.x releases - there are a few new significant features (support for merging indices and UNIX sockets in particular), and it supports the brand new Rails 5.2. The release...

Much to my delight, it’s almost time for another Comedy Festival!
My particular highlights for this year’s upcoming festival include many familiar names from previous years:
David O’Doherty with his keyboard and tunes is consistently very funny. If you’ve seen him before then you know exactly what to expect (and I’m very fine with his regular style)....

(If you’re not entirely familiar with the terms frozen, string, or literal - especially in relation to Ruby - it’s probably best starting with the previous post which introduces these concepts.)
Since the 2.3.0 release of Ruby, there’s been the optional feature to make all string literals frozen. This means that any string literal within your code is frozen and cannot be modified. As an added bonus, identical string literals in multiple locations...

In this post I am running through the basic concepts of literals, strings, and the benefits of frozen objects in Ruby. If you feel like you understand this, jump straight on over to part two which covers the new Frozen String Literal feature in Ruby...