Flatiron School Blog

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 […]

The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. NYC provides a ton of data from a variety of sources to the public to use for research and for application development. There’s […]

With a git workflow, you become used to commands like git add filename and git commit -m “add filename”.

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.

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 […]

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.