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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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Link Generation in ERB With Rails

The following is a guest post by Emily Xie and originally appeared on her blog. Emily is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Last lecture, we covered Rails. Our instructor, Avi, mentioned how the level of abstraction with which Rails operates can be a double-edged sword. On one […]
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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…
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Flatiron Day 25: Networking

Kicking-off week 5 we started the morning with pair coding on our class App LocationQuiz
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Improving Standings, a Command Line Soccer Score Gem

Improving the gem meant a massive restructure of my previous gem, which was designed with one league in mind.
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Explanation of NGinx and Passenger

The following is a guest post by Ian Miller and originally appeared on his blog. Ian is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. NGinx is a open-source proxy server that primarily serves HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Nginx was created to achieve three main goals: concurrency (process in which […]