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Enumerable grep method in Ruby

There is some methods that are not very known among ruby developpers. One of them is Enumerable#grep method. I would like to share one of the use case I have to face with, and how I implement grep. Purpose, I have a Hash representing a simple network I’d like to select all the people related [...]

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Bundler default Gemfile and custom Gemfile, example of wirble

Hi all, A simple trick I want to share with you if you are using Bundler (or rails 3) It matters if you want to install wirble gem in your workstation but not in your server Sometimes, you want to include some gem that are not mandatory for your application to run but you want [...]

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Ordered Hash by keys

Recently, I have to implement my own Hash sorting method. Not really with Hash but with ActiveSupport::OrderedHash I don’t like the way ActiveSupport::OrderedHash behaves with sorting functionality. It just behaves like a simple Hash I would like that sort return an ActiveSupport::OrderedHash not an Arrray!!! Why is it called OrderedHash in this case ? I [...]

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Inspectable accessors

Hey, it’s been a while I posted here. So what’s the purpose ? I commonly use script/console to debug my rails applications. Today I wanted to see the values of my custom attributes model without typing model.custom_attribute. So I took a look at ActiveRecord::Base#inspect method. and the default inspect method shows me database fields. Well, [...]

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Class : to_s or not to_s ? That is the name !

Many rubyist use the method Class#to_s instead of Class#name My purpose (shared by some programmers) is that to_s is just a String representation of the Class not its name!! Imagine you want to store an ordered list of inherited subclasses as a String so you can retrieve the inheritance order of each subclass. class Parent [...]

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