[HN Gopher] Class methods are Ruby's useEffect
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       Class methods are Ruby's useEffect
        
       Author : monkey_slap
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-10-17 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | gerjomarty wrote:
       | As an aside, if you need to play with datetime objects in Ruby,
       | you almost certainly want to be using the Time library instead of
       | the DateTime library, even though one of them sounds like it fits
       | better.
       | 
       | At the top of the DateTime docs [1]:
       | 
       | > DateTime class is considered deprecated. Use Time class.
       | 
       | The same doc explains when you should use DateTime by using an
       | anecdote about William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes dying
       | on the same day - except they didn't because England and Italy
       | used different calendars at the time. [2]
       | 
       | DateTime is great at dealing with historical pre-1970 dates,
       | otherwise just use Time.
       | 
       | [1]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/DateTime.html [2]:
       | https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/DateTime.html#class-DateTi...
        
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