About Idiosyncratic Ruby Ruby is not only optimized for developer happiness, but also for writing one-liners and it is still one of the top choices for code golfers. Ruby's grammar definition is more than 10000 lines long and there is no editor or syntax highlighter that actually highlights Ruby correctly. A lot of them already fail at highlighting strings not created with the usual quotes syntax, but with one of the more than 100 other ways. But: IDIOSYNCRATIC != BAD

1. Test Highlights
2. Ruby String Magic
3. Ruby, Can You Speak Louder?
4. What the Pack?
5. Constant Shadows
6. Run Ruby, Run!
7. Easier Switching
8. Self Improvement
9. Globalization
10. Know your Environment
11. Regular Extremism
12. More Inspections
13. Slicing Rubies
14. Meeting some Locals
15. 207 Ways to Rome
16. Changing the Rules
17. Stream Editing
18. Con-Struct Attributes
19. Symbolic Reservations
20. Better Standards
21. Uniform Resource Matching
22. Literate Ruby
23. Ruby Lookalikes
24. Goto Fail
25. Meta Methodology
26. File Encoding Magic
27. Golfing Basics
28. Operating Nothing
29. Limitations of Language
30. Regex with Class
31. Roots of Rubyism