Weeknotes #98

With last week’s release of my gem, re2, I had to update its documentation. I use YARD to generate the documentation from the source code and host it using GitHub Pages.

After generating the latest documentation with yard doc, I noticed some broken links when I deployed it, specifically when trying to load the alphabetic index. This is a known issue with YARD and GitHub Pages as Jekyll will ignore any files beginning with an underscore.

Chris suggested that I stop GitHub Pages running the documentation through Jekyll altogether by placing a .nojekyll file in the root of the repository and that fixed the missing index.
Tom tweeted about an upcoming change to Ruby that will allow you to use MatchData objects when pattern matching, e.g.
```
if NAN_REGEXP.match(string) in { sign:, payload: }
  Nan.new(payload: payload&.to_i(16) || 0, negated: sign == '-')
elsif INFINITE_REGEXP.match(string) in { sign: }
  Infinite.new(negated: sign == '-')
end
```
As I haven’t yet tried pattern matching in recent versions of Ruby, I implemented it for RE2::MatchData and released it in 1.6.0.
```
if RE2('foo(?P<suffix>...)').match('foobar') in suffix:
  puts suffix
end
# bar
```
It was quite fun to figure out exactly how RE2::MatchData#deconstruct and RE2::MatchData#deconstruct_keys should behave but the tests in Ruby were a huge help.
We’ve been slowly but steadily replacing flimsy things in our kitchen with OXO Good Grips equivalents when they break:
Draw your own similarities to the IKEA scene from “Fight Club”.