- Dec 2,
2022
Introduction When consuming data made available by a 3rd party API (I’ve always disliked the confusion introduced when saying ‘consuming an API’), the Faraday gem is a very popular and concise way to create the connection to the API data. This article will attempt to succinctly describe how to use...
- Oct 29,
2022
Table of Contents Setup The list of steps Conclusion Setting it Up If you’re a student from Turing School of Software and Design and you’re working on an IC, you’re in the right place. I wrote this article while I was in mod 2 (2208-BE, ‘sup?), because there were a...
- Oct 28,
2022
Introduction To create a rake task, it would first be helpful to know what a rake task is. A rake task is a small piece of code that is run when it is called from the command line. It’s written in Ruby, and it can do just about anything you...
- Aug 15,
2022
One way to split an array in to two separate Arrays Working on a simple recursion problem, and the need to split an Array in two arose. How the heck is this done simply? Of course there’s many ways to do it…. arr_a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...
- Aug 7,
2022
How to collect things in a Hash, as an instance variable of an Object Objects have state and behavior. State is like the current state of your car. Your car’s current state is “parked”. State is represented with an instance variable. Behaviors are the things you can do to or...
- Jul 28,
2022
Floating-Point Arithmetic Recently I subtracted a float and an integer in Ruby 3.2 - 3 > 0.20000000000000018 Wait a minute… Shouldn’t the return value simply be .2? Not so fast…. The actual problem at hand included extracting the decimals from a float 2.23 Naturally, turned to StackOverflow The variety of...
- Jul 27,
2022
Intro I’m trying different uses for this blog of mine, to see how I can use it for learning exhaust. Consider this article as an extension of the official documentation. While being able to read documentation is a skill, liking the vernacular used to write that documentation is something completely...
- Jul 17,
2022
How to build forms in Rails Rails offers three ways to build a form. It’s possible, depending on the version of Rails being used, that I may see any of these tags for forms: <%= form_with %> <%= form_tag %> <%= form_for %> # deprecated This article will be a...