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Deploying a Sqlite3 Database to Heroku for Production Using Postgres

The following is a guest post by Jordan Trevino and originally appeared on his blog. Jordan is currently a student at The Flatiron School. In this post I want to discuss how we deployed to production on Heroku despite having applications running sqlite databases. The problem Sqlite is a very easy database to setup, and hence, it […]
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Day 5: Making My Params First

The following is a guest post by Steven Brooks and originally appeared on his blog. Steven is currently a student at The Flatiron School. This is continued from a series on Steven’s pursuit to build his first app.
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Rails Console: Useful Tricks

The following is a guest post by David Rodriguez and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. The past couple of weeks I’ve been engaged in what could be best described as a love/hate relationship with the Rails console. I’m not alone. At times, […]
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Why Didn’t My Octopress Work?

The following is a guest post by Ruthie Nachmany and originally appeared on her blog. Ruthie is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. My octopress blog works now, but it wasn’t working for a while. I’ve overheard from some of my classmates at Flatiron that they are experiencing this as […]
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Starting Out With JQuery Mobile in Rails

The following is a guest post by Thomas Deatherage and originally appeared on his blog. Thomas is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. I’ve just begun collaborating on a project that I’ll present next month for an NYC on Rails meetup. At this point my group and I intend to develop […]
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Programming, Postmodernism, and Ruby’s Self

The following is a guest post by Kirin Masood and originally appeared on her blog. Kirin is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here__. Upon first glance it seems as if coding and programming are subjects that exist independently of all other subjects. Closer observation, reflection, and a little bit of […]