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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 […]
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How to Install a Custom Theme on Octopress
The following is a guest post by David Baker and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. Octopress is an awesome blogging framework built on top of Jekyll. This post will show you how to add a custom theme. The Default Classic Theme […]
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Decoding Object Oriented Design
OOD has been around since mid 60’s. The concept didn’t really pick up until early 90’s with C++. It’s receiving a lot of attention in Rails/Ruby community as well.
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By Any Other Name: My 3 Favorite Ruby Method Names
When called on an object, ‘tap’ yields that object to a block where other operations can be performed on it, and then returns the object to the method chain.
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Hiring a Media Intern!
We’re only halfway through our first semester and things are going better than we could have imagined! We’re hiring a paid Media Intern to help us share that story to the world. You’ll work with our Campus Manager to maintain the social media presence and produce creative content. We’re a small team with 20 full-time students, […]
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How to Fix a RedCloth Error While Installing Octopress
The following is a guest post by Corinna Brock and originally appeared on her blog. Corinna is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter here. Octopress is a great blogging platform for coders. (Full disclosure: My personal blog is run on Octopress.) However, when installing, sometimes strange errors come […]