Simple Social Network

Noel Rappin

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You will note, if you look at this code, that I write very unsophisticated text parsers.

I did use pattern-matching in this at least briefly, and I wrote some RSpec matchers that made testing this code easier.

Lucian Ghinda

@noelrap this sounds good. I might take inspiration from it as I kinda want to be able to parse a Gemfile and extract a list of source codes as they are defined at rubygems.

And the first step was just to parse the Gemfile

Noel Rappin

My original hope was actually to instance_eval the gemfile, which is what bundler does, but with my own handler to capture the information for the sort. But I decided that would be harder, especially for managing comments.

By far the goofiest code in the existing gem is the code that pulls a `group` or `source` from an inline gem so it can normalize it with blocks — that would probably have been easier with instance_eval, because Ruby would have parsed it.