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Wednesday, July 23 2008

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Understanding Ruby Symbols

Symbols in ruby are an enigma. We use them, but many don’t really understand them.
So really, what is a symbol?

Simply, a symbol is something that you use to represent names and strings. What this boils down to is a way to efficiently have descriptive names while saving the space one would use to generate a string for each naming instance...

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