A while ago, I gave a talk about Object-Oriented Programming at a Ruby conference. Afterwards, I was chatting about my talk with a friend who had a sceptical view of “Real OOP”.

I was chatting to a colleague recently who expressed they didn’t really like Ruby’s excessive list of keywords.

This post is part 3 of 3 describing how Semantic Version strings can be converted to sortable integers for easier and faster sorting.

This post is part 2 of 3 describing how Semantic Version strings can be converted to sortable integers for easier and faster sorting.

Sometimes we need to sort string values that aren’t lexicographically sortable. For example, a list of Semantic Version strings like 1.0.0-rc1, 1.2.4, 1.1.0-beta and 2.0.0.