Flatiron School

The following is a guest post by David Baker and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. Octopress is an awesome blogging framework built on top of Jekyll. This post will show you how to add a custom theme. The Default Classic Theme […]

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.

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.

The following is a guest post by Corinna Brock and originally appeared on her blog. Corinna is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter here. Octopress is a great blogging platform for coders. (Full disclosure: My personal blog is run on Octopress.) However, when installing, sometimes strange errors come […]

The following is a guest post by Aaron Streiter and originally appeared on his blog. Aaron is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. One of the primary challenges of learning Ruby on Rails is understanding the MVC Pattern. For newbies to rails, this can be a challenge. […]

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 […]