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has_many :through - Slightly more readable Ruby

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Slightly more readable Ruby. Mdash; June 19, 2011 at 23:00 PDT. A simple coding style for slightly more readable Ruby: symbols as flag arguments. Use a symbol with a meaningful name instead of. This makes it clear what you're doing and is just as terse. For example:. Def run(log it = false) log action if log it run action end command.run(true) # mysterious use of `true` command.run(:with logging) # obvious. The other common pattern I see in Rails is to use an options hash. That call would look like.

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Why The Lucky Stiff’s Delightful Foreword for Beginning Ruby

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Want to stay on top? Is a once-weekly e-mail newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Ruby and Rails Jobs. Follow us on Twitter. Ruby and Rails Jobs. More jobs ». Why The Lucky Stiff’s Delightful Foreword for Beginning Ruby. March 25, 2011. In May 2006 as a promotional vehicle for my then in-progress book, Beginning Ruby. It eventually went on to be published by. And is now on its second edition having sold quite a few copies. If you want to check out Beginning Ruby, give this PDF a look.

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A Review of “Eloquent Ruby” by Russ Olsen – It Rocks!

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Want to stay on top? Is a once-weekly e-mail newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Ruby and Rails Jobs. Follow us on Twitter. Ruby and Rails Jobs. More jobs ». A Review of “Eloquent Ruby” by Russ Olsen – It Rocks! February 27, 2011. Amazon.com - print & Kindle). By Russ Olsen is the first Ruby book I've read. Within 24 hours; it's that good. That may be all you need to know before you buy a copy at Amazon.com. Or read it on Safari. What Is "Eloquent Ruby"? Write Code That Looks Like Ruby.

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Thoughts on two months of pairing « Sarah Mei

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Hi, there. :). Laquo; Why I Don’t Work At Google. SCALE 8x Slides Posted. Thoughts on two months of pairing. Previous to joining Pivotal Labs, I didn’t do a whole lot of pair programming. It does contain some profanity. I blame my co-workers for that. Now that I’m doing it, I love. It’s fucking exhilarating. On Getting Shit Done. When I’m pairing, I can really get shit done. By myself, I have a lot of roadblocks:. When trying to figure out some thorny bug by myself, I often follow the wrong line of inqui...

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Black Friday - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy

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Laquo; Astronomers thankful for return of Jupiter's belt. Evolution is the coin of the realm. November 26, 2010 6:51 am. How much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black. 8212; the eminent cosmologist Nigel Tufnel. Today in the U.S. is (only semi-jokingly) called Black Friday, because it’s traditionally a big shopping day for the holidays, which means crowds and madness. So I was thinking about the term, which made me think about the adjective:. What does it mean? Of color, the.