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Four Lessons I Learned While Porting a Gem Into a Sinatra App
The following is a guest post by Joe O’Conor and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. My classmate Anders and I have been working on a simple forecast app (rubygems) for a couple of weeks now. It started as a basic command […]
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Globular
When running any Ruby application that contains more than one or two files, we generally find ourselves writing an environment.rb file
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Halfway
Six weeks from now, I will be rolling in bed, too sad to fall asleep knowing that Flatiron is over.
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I Like My Coffee Strong … And My Params Stronger
Before understanding the need for strong params in Rails, let’s take a look at the idea of mass assignment in Ruby.
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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…