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Hide Your Keys, Hide Your Tokens … Unless Deploying to Heroku

The following is a guest post by Greg Eng and originally appeared on his blog. Greg is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. In that case, you have to do a little more than just hide them. Typically, an API will require a key or authentication token before […]
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Database Column Type – Array

The following is a guest post by David Bella and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Okay, So More Like “List” Relational databases are a great way to store, well, related data, in a base. Often times, we have to store […]
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Flatiron School Day Twenty Four – Include or Extend for a Module?

There are two ways to add a module to a class, include and extend.
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I Like My Coffee Strong … And My Params Stronger

Before understanding the need for strong params in Rails, let’s take a look at the idea of mass assignment in Ruby.
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Self-Referential Associations, AKA Self Joins

The following is a guest post by Daniel Chang and originally appeared on his blog. Daniel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Week 2 of learning Rails. After 6 weeks at Flatiron, I feel like a beginner again, but not quite like I’m stranded on a deserted […]
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gem.first

The following is a guest post by Charlotte Chang and originally appeared on her blog. Charlotte is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Click image below to access presentation…