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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 […]
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How to Close a Git Pull Request
With a git workflow, you become used to commands like git add filename and git commit -m “add filename”.
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How Params Works in Rails
As you might have guessed, params is an alias for the parameters method. params comes from ActionController::Base, which is accessed by your application via ApplicationController.
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How to Use Octokit Commit Method
The following is a guest post by Ericka Ward and originally appeared on her blog. Ericka is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter (https://twitter.com/ErickaJoy)_ Octokit is a Ruby wrapper that parses data from the Github API. This is awesome because it makes the data much more accessible and […]
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Decoding Object Oriented Design
OOD has been around since mid 60’s. The concept didn’t really pick up until early 90’s with C++. It’s receiving a lot of attention in Rails/Ruby community as well.
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By Any Other Name: My 3 Favorite Ruby Method Names
When called on an object, ‘tap’ yields that object to a block where other operations can be performed on it, and then returns the object to the method chain.
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Submitting a Pull Request
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. Last week I talked about the importance of conributing to open source documentation. Here is a quick guide on how to actually go through […]