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First Ruby Motion App
I recently dived into rubymotion head first and since there is a definite lack of quality tutorials out there I decided to outline my first ruby motion project.
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Ruby Patterns: Mass Assignment
The following is a guest post by Kevin Curtin and originally appeared on his blog. Kevin is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. A common pattern in programming is to instantiate a new object and assign a bunch of attributes during initialize. You probably recognize code […]
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How to Make Conditional Requests to Github’s API Using Octokit
The following is a guest post by Josh Rowley and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. For the last month, my team and I have been working on Gitbo, an app for finding open source software issues on Github […]
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Here’s Where to Start Flatiron School Prework
When creating this pre-work, The Flatiron School had four goals in mind.
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Easy Datetime Comparison With ActiveRecord and Rails
The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is a Flatiron School alumni. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on Twitter here. TL;DR: Instead of creating or hardcoding your own DateTime and Date objects, use built in ActiveSupport methods in your ActiveRecord queries. Using ActiveRecord is great because […]
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How to Query NYC Open Datasets With Socrata
The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. NYC provides a ton of data from a variety of sources to the public to use for research and for application development. There’s […]