I tend to point people at "Eloquent Ruby" to learn how to write idiomatic Ruby c...

haukur · on Jan 3, 2014

Funnily enough, the first chapter recommends the standard library as idiomatic Ruby code.

steveklabnik · on Jan 3, 2014

Hehe. And it comes full circle. It is a few years old... I don't think the social norms of Ruby have changed all that much.

To be clear, there are good and bad parts of the standard library, just like there is all code. But much of it is basically a time capsule.