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The Maybe Monad in idiomatic Ruby

2Distinct people
2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
301GitHub stars
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What it is

The Maybe Monad in idiomatic Ruby

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Because NilObject is actually an object, it is possible to add some methods that take some of the pain out of dealing with maybe-nil objects.. My favorite is the andand gem:…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-09-08 13:39:09 UTC to 2010-07-25 22:50:46 UTC.

012009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20092009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20102010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2010

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20092009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20092009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20092009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20092009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20102010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20102010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20102010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20102010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20102010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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