This document summarizes Yusuke Endoh's presentation on esoteric and obfuscated Ruby programming at the 2018 Bath Ruby Conference. It discusses programming in Ruby using only limited letters or symbols, and creating self-descriptive and funny Ruby programs. Examples shown include Ruby code using only numbers, underscores, or other limited characters to represent strings, as well as programs that reconstruct themselves when evaluated.

1. Esoteric, Obfuscated, Artistic
Programming in Ruby
Yusuke Endoh (@mametter)
Cookpad Inc.
Bath Ruby Conference 2018
(2018/03/23)

2. And Now for Something
Completely Different — in Ruby
Yusuke Endoh (@mametter)
Cookpad Inc.
Bath Ruby Conference 2018
(2018/03/23)

3. Yusuke Endoh (@mametter)
• MRI committer
– Was the release manager for 2.0
– Implemented coverage.so,
keyword arguments, etc.
• Branch coverage (Ruby 2.5)
• Working at Cookpad Inc.
– Cookpad employs
two full-time Ruby committers
(Koichi Sasada and me)

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– https://cookpad.com/uk
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6. Today's Topic
• "Completely different" Ruby programs
– Ruby can do anything!
• Agenda
– 1. Ruby with limited letters
– 2. Funny, self-descriptive Ruby programs

7. 1. RUBY WITH
LIMITED LETTERS

8. A Ruby program
require "1234567890"
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345203368399394864831728762954025
223544083864187912864887414172728
297936126807895282322033562499828
91940559064073941914244494205218

9. Demo
• "Hello, world!" program by using only
numbers
– You can encode not only Hello world,
but also any Ruby programs
$ ruby H3110.rb
Hello, Bath & Bristol Ruby!
$
Hello world only by numbers

10. Internal
• Gödel numbering
• Ruby's black magic
Hello world only by numbers

11. Internal: Gödel numbering
• A technique to encode
any given string to a natural number
– In: a byte array 𝑛1, 𝑛2, 𝑛3, 𝑛4, 𝑛5, …
– Out:2 𝑛1 × 3 𝑛2 × 5 𝑛3 × 7 𝑛4 × 11 𝑛5 × ⋯
– To decode it, use prime factorization
• The gem uses much easier way
– Encoding: str.unpack("H*")[0].hex
– Decoding: [num.to_s(16)].pack("H*")
Hello world only by numbers

12. Internal: Ruby's black magic
• How to get the number
– It is just placed at the toplevel of code
• My answer:
– ObjectSpace.each_object(Integer)
• Unsure if this is portable, but it works anyway
– Try to decode all enumerated integers,
identify the desired Ruby code, and eval
– See the source code (32 lines) in detail
• https://github.com/mame/1234567890
Hello world only by numbers

13. How to install
Hello world only by numbers
$ gem install 1234567890_
Don't forget underscore!
(rubygems.org required at least one letter)

14. Hello world only by "_"
require "_"
____ _ _____ ____ __ ____ ____ __ ___ ____
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______ ____ _ _ ____ _ _ ____ _ ____ __ __
___ _ ______ ___ __ ______ _ ___ _____ __
____ __ ___ ___ ______ ___ _ ______ ___ __
_ ___ _ ______ ___ __ ______ _ ____ __ _
___ ______ ____ ____ __ __ ____ __ ___
____ _ ____ ____ _ _ _ ______ ___ ___ __
_____ ____ __ ____ ___ _____ ___ ____ ___
__ _ ______ ____ _ ______ _____

15. Demo
• "Hello, world!" program written using
only underscores
$ ruby __hello__.rb
Hello, Bath & Bristol Ruby!
$
Hello world only by "_"

16. Internal: Base-6
• Encode the Gödel number in Base-6
• Represent each digit with underscores
– Use length (n+1) for digit n
• Why base-6 is chosen?
– To minimize the expected code length:
log 𝑏 126 × ൗ𝑏
2 + 1 + 1
Hello world only by "_"
304313…
____ _ _____ ____ __ ____ …

17. You can install
$ gem install _
Hello world only by "_"

18. Summary
• Ruby beats letter limitation
• More?
– See my RubyConf 2017 talk
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Only symbols Only alphabets

19. 2. FUNNY, SELF-DESCRIPTIVE
RUBY PROGRAMS

20. Self-descriptive ???
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21. Self-descriptive FizzBuzz
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22. Internal
• Reconstruct self
• Reshape itself
as the next number
– Embedded font data
– Fizzbuzz
– Shaping
• Output the result
• Make it "executable
ASCII-art"
Self-descriptive FizzBuzz
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23. Quine
• A program that outputs itself
• Trick
– Step 1. Reconstruct self as a string
– Step 2. Print it
• Additional step makes Quine "funny"
eval s="puts('eval s='+s.inspect)"
Self-descriptive FizzBuzz

24. Embedded font data
Self-descriptive FizzBuzz
• Original data (165 bytes)
• Replace spaces with "0", and "#" with "1"
• Interpret each line as binary number (50 bytes)
• Shorten them by to_s(36) (35 bytes)
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25. Executable ASCII-art
• Write a code with no space and backslash
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27. Quine-relay
• A Ruby code
• that generates Rust code
• that generates Scala code
• …
• that generates REXX code
• that generates the original Ruby code
128 languages
involved
in total
Quine-relay

28. Quine-relay
• A Ruby code
• that generates Rust code
• that generates Scala code
• …
• that generates REXX code
• that generates the original Ruby code
128 languages
involved
in total
Quine-relay

29. Demo
https://travis-ci.org/mame/quine-relay
Quine-relay

30. Internal
– Step 1. Reconstruct self as a string
– Step 2. Wrap Python's Hello world
– Step 3. Print it
Quine-relay
eval s="puts( 'eval s='+s.dump )"
Ruby's Quine
print( "Hello!" )
+Python's Hello world
eval s="puts('print('+('eval s='+s.dump).dump+')')"
↓RubyPython Quine

31. Internal
• In theory: Repeat this process for 127
languages
• In practical: The naïve approach
explodes the size of intermediate code
– To avoid this problem, it uses many tricks
• compression algorithm
• on-time code generation
• etc.
– See the generator in detail
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen.rb
Quine-relay

32. Monumental Quine
A column object 3D model data
Ruby code
is inscribed
You can buy it at Shapeways!
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mametter
Execute
the code
3D
printer

33. Internal
• The shorter is code, the cheaper ☺
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3D Model Generator
Monumental Quine

34. 15 quzzle
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36. qng and qif
 qng
– A png image file
containing
Ruby code that
produces this image
 qif
– A gif version

37. Lipogram Quine
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56879647b3b3b3b3b3b3b39292%*%%%).pack(%%h*%)))";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

38. Demo
• Works as an ordinary Quine
$ ruby lquine.rb > lquine2.rb
$ diff –s lquine.rb lquine2.rb
lquine.rb and lquine2.rb are identical
Lipogram Quine

39. "a" is removed from the world!
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t=->s,x,y{->&u{u[s,x,y]}[&:tr]};z="!-{";->&u{u[y="().0123456789hklpvw<*abcdef¥¥",t["m~i",",-~",
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56879647b3b3b3b3b3b3b39292%*%%%).pack(%%h*%)))";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
$ sed s/a//g lquine.rb
Lipogram Quine

40. "" is removed from the world!
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t=->s,x,y{->&u{u[s,x,y]}[&:tr]};z="!-{";->&u{u[y="().0123456789hklpvw<*bcdef¥¥",t["m~i",",-~",
"$-{"]+t["$",z,"i-{"],t[t["YQUO@g=`@W='@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';g=^YQUO@g=`@^+g+^AA^;Y=?=;n
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evl"(evl((%w%%<<%w%566716c68276d3528236d3728292e20313233343536373839386b6c6076777c3216263646
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$ sed s/a//g lquine.rb
Lipogram Quine

41. Demo
• You can delete any one letter
• It automatically restore itself!
$ sed s/a//g lquine.rb > broken.rb
$ ruby broken.rb > broken2.rb
$ diff –s broken.rb broken2.rb
broken.rb and broken2.rb are identical
Lipogram Quine

42. Internal
• Main trick:
– This code executes code2
• The string literal is just ignored
• If "a" is removed:
– This code executes code1 and terminates
Lipogram Quine
"#a{ code1;exit }"; code2
"#{ code1;exit }"; code2
String interpolation!

43. Internal
• Basic structure:
Lipogram Quine
"#a{#b{#c{…
A code without "a","b","c",…
exit
}"
A code with only "a","b","c",…

44. More? Read my book!
• "The World of
Obfuscated,
Esoteric, Artistic
Programming"
– Contains about 40
codes like this talk
– Written in Japanese

45. Related contests
• International Obfuscated C Code Contest
(IOCCC)
– A programming contest for hard-to-read
programs written in C language
• Transcendental Ruby Imbroglio Contest
for rubyKaigi (TRICK)
– The judges (including I) held TRICK twice
– TRICK FINAL is now open (~ 2018/03/31)
• https://github.com/tric/trick2018
• Winners will be awarded at RubyKaigi 2018

46. Conclusion
• Ruby is incredibly flexible
– You can use Ruby with broken keyboards
(only numbers, or only underscores)
– You can write artistic and super-robust
Quine in Ruby
• Ruby Programming is fun
– Even without practicality
– If you like practicality, join 
• One more thing…

47. A Quine for Bath Ruby Conference
"#a{#b{#c{…