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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 […]
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Learn Rails Concepts With Sinatra
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 learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. One of the primary challenges of learning Ruby on Rails is understanding the MVC Pattern. For newbies to rails, this can be a challenge. […]
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Submitting a Pull Request
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. Last week I talked about the importance of conributing to open source documentation. Here is a quick guide on how to actually go through […]
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A Message from Our Dean to Our Students
A Message from Our Dean to Our Students I delivered this speech to students to mark the 1/3rd way through the Flatiron School journey: Now more than ever in your life your future can be of your choosing. If you seek out challenges, you will find them to be opportunities. If you confront your fears, you […]
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How the Internet Works: Part 1 of 3
The following is a guest post by Li Ouyang and originally appeared on her blog. Li is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter here. We’ll be publishing the rest of this mini-series of blog posts as they are released. Sometimes, it’s the simple questions that […]