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How I Learned to Code in 8 Months
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 follow her on twitter here. When many people look at my resume, they’re often confused by my drastic career switch. They’re also confused by how much I’ve learned in the past […]
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First Ruby Motion App
I recently dived into rubymotion head first and since there is a definite lack of quality tutorials out there I decided to outline my first ruby motion project.
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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 […]
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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 […]