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Gitting Your First Dev Job

June 14, 2019 - What are the most essential Git commands to know in your first year as a developer?
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Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord

August 12, 2008 - On a project I’ve been working on recently, I wanted to be able to enter in Markdown text to a field and convert it into HTML in a view. Having read about BlueCloth’s performance problems though, I didn’t want to use the built in markdown helper in ActionView.…
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Multi-line Memoization

January 5, 2009 - Here’s a quick tip that came out of a code review we did last week. One easy way to add caching to your Ruby app is to memoize the results of computationally expensive methods: def foo @foo ||= expensive_method end The first time the method is called, @foo will be nil, so…
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Generate Unique Identifiers With Postgres Sequences

April 27, 2016 - Need a unique identifier? Postgres sequences have you covered.