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Saturday, July 10, 2010

JavaScript tricks in Ruby

I attended a JavaScript workshop in Vancouver today and the talk by John Resig was inspiring. I pick up some notices here. http://www.meetup.com/vancouver-javascript-developers/calendar/13867715/?a=cr1p_grp&rv=cr1p

Splittinng arguments

Math.min() accepts a set of values. When you would like to find the minimum value of an array, you can use the following trick:

Math.min.apply(Math, the_array);

Function#apply receives an object for "text" and arguments in array.

On the other hand Ruby has a feature of this issue as a syntactic sugar.

Math.min(*the_array)

Abbreviating "new"

JavaScript uses "new" operator to create an instance.

var a = new A(x);

You may want to abbreviate the keyword "new" like

var a = A(x);

You can provide such class with the following trick.

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