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Ruby Patterns: Mass Assignment
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. A common pattern in programming is to instantiate a new object and assign a bunch of attributes during initialize. You probably recognize code […]
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How to Make Conditional Requests to Github’s API Using Octokit
The following is a guest post by Josh Rowley and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. For the last month, my team and I have been working on Gitbo, an app for finding open source software issues on Github […]
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Metaprogramming: #const_set
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 follow him on twitter here. This code sample is from the Proto gem The Goal To dynamically create classes based on the parameters of a method The Code The Breakdown We are used […]
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Google Maps for Rails
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 follow him on twitter here. As a student at the Flatiron School I recently gave a presentation at the NYC on Rails meetup called Google-Maps-for-Rails. Check out the speakerdeck here! Google-Maps-for-Rails is a really neat gem […]
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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 […]