Let’s talk about gems! What is a gem? Well, a gem is basically just a nicely packaged collection of code that can be easily plugged right into a Rails project to gain some functionality. Gems are great! Let’s look at some examples… Continue reading
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Day 37..41 – A Week of TDD
It’s been a bit more than a few days since my last post. I have a couple excuses. My main excuse is because I didn’t really feel like writing about TDD for days and days. That’s pretty much all I’ve been doing this week – TDD, TDD and more TDD. TDD is not exactly the most exciting thing in the world. My other excuse is that Continue reading
Day 36 – Enter TDD
This is going to be a quick post today. I’ve been picking up some pretty neat topics but I’m gonna give myself a bit of a break and go to bed early for once. First things first, this week’s theme for algorithms is no longer recursion. Instead, we’re taking a step back and returning to Continue reading