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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 […]
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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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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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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 to Avoid Multitasking for Greater Productivity
The following is a guest post by Nikhil Thomas and originally appeared on his blog. Nikhil is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. One of the biggest mistakes we tend to make is placing a massive emphasis on multitasking. We tend to hero worship people who can juggle many projects, […]
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The Flatiron School Presents Corinna & Rex
Each week during the semester, Flatiron School students present on a topic of their choice to the NYC on Rails Meetup Group. Be sure to follow the presenters on Twitter: Corinna Brock & Rex Feng. At a recent NYC on Rails Meetup, student Corinna Brock showed us how to get started with Ruby Koans. Student Rex Feng presented […]