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Dynamic Method Definition
The following is a guest post by Adam Jonas and originally appeared on his blog. Adam is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. As a beginner, when I run into a problem my first instinct is to power through and simply find a way to get it done– the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]