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The purpose of private methods and when to use them
Before I describe my conception of private methods, I’ll discuss some of the wrong answers you can easily find online in hopes of inoculating you against their wrongness.As of this writing, if I google for “purpose of private methods” and click on...
Introducing new features for the aws-sdk-rails gem
The Ruby SDK team is happy to announce that we’ve added new features and consolidated existing gems into the aws-sdk-rails gem to make developing Rails applications using AWS easier than ever.Features supportedAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) que...
Practical Applications of the Singleton Class in Ruby
The singleton class is rarely used in practice to modify the behavior of specific objects. Read on to learn a few practical applications that might prove useful in your.In the previous post, we discussed how the singleton class powers class method...
1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
What’s the midpoint between 0 and infinity? Well the answer differs depending on whether you are asking a mathematician, philosopher, or a Ruby developer. I’m not a mathematician or a philosopher, but I am a Ruby developer, so I can tell you than ...
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