
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)
By James Edward Gray II
About James Edward Gray II
James Edward Gray II was called into the principal’s office in high school for writing a black jack program on his calculator and beaming it to all the math students almost 20 years ago. He’s been tinkering with little code...
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Showcasing RubyLearning’s Awesome Rubyists
RubyLearning has been associated with some amazing, talented Rubyists these last 5 years. I am compiling a list (in alphabetical order) showcasing these awesome Rubyists who have either undergone some of the courses at RubyLearning or have been instrumental in taking RubyLearning to the next level.
Ruby Stars
Alvaro Pereyra RabanalAlvaro Pereyra Rabanal...
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Tags: Popular, Programming, ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rubyists
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Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook setup for a new employee with Snow Leopard.Over the years, I’ve evolved these following steps and they’ve helped our team...
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Tags: Business, github, guide, mysql, ohmyzsh, osx, PLANET ARGON, postgresql, Programming, rails, ruby, Ruby on Rails, rubyonrails, snowleopard, xcode, zsh
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Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Fair Distribution (#6)
By John Trupiano
About John Trupiano
John Trupiano (twitter) is the co-founder of SmartLogic, the premiere Ruby development team in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an active member in the technology and business communities in the mid-Atlantic region. He is highly involved with the local Ruby user group (Bmore...
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Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh. To celebrate, I’ve updated the themes wiki page with fresh screenshots.Here is a sampling of some of the themes that you can use out of the box with Oh My Zsh.Oh My Zsh is much...
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Tags: github, ohmyzsh, Programming, terminal, zsh
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RubyLearning wishes all its readers and their friends and families a happy, healthy 2010. Thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement this year. It’s been a fun and rewarding year and we do appreciate all that you contribute to this site.
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Mazes (#5)
By Peter Cooper
About Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper (twitter)...
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Will refrain from any political commentary, but was notified by some friends that the GOP was using the source code for RubyURL for their new URL shortening site (gop.am).To celebrate, I decided to daisy chain a few rubyurl-based sites together and came up with:
http://rubyurl.com/hj6lEnjoy!As always, you can fork/clone here
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Tags: gop, Programming, Ruby on Rails, RubyURL, zombieurl
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Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Ruby**Fun (#4)
By Michael Kohl
About Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl (Twitter / blog) in his day job, works as an IT systems engineer in Vienna, Austria. He fell in love with Ruby in 2003 or so, maintained various Ruby-related packages for Gentoo Linux from 2004-2006 and started being an assistant teacher for...
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While reviewing some code recently, I came across controller code that resembled the following.if @customer.save
CustomerMailer.deliver_welcome_message(@customer)
flash = "Your account has been successfully created. We've sent you a welcome letter with..."
redirect_to dashboard_path
else
...
endFairly typical Rails code. Nothing alarming here, but I wanted to evaluate the call to the mailer...
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Tags: actionmailer, controllers, development, models, patterns, Programming, Ruby on Rails, rubyonrails
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Recently, Carlos, suggested that I should start sharing some basic SQL tips that help with performance and/or general usage. I recently came across some code that I didn’t like to read and/or write. For example, let’s take the following…SELECT * FROM brochures WHERE published_at <= now() AND archived_at >= now()Essentially, this is pulling back...
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Tags: code, development, mysql, postgresql, Programming, refactoring, sql
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