I’m halfway dozing on the couch with Todd’s Powerbook in my lap while he and the guys play Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare. I made dinner tonight involving Uncle Ben’s long grain and wild rice, Mom’s green beans, and baked paprika-parmesan … Continue reading
So you’ve got some Rails application and you need to store information from the users across their interactions with the app. Here’s a simple, straightforward way to do that. In your controller: if params[:option] @option = session[:option] = params[:option] elsif … Continue reading
if succinctlyIn Ruby, if is an expression, not a statement, thus it returns a value. This may not seem useful at first glance, but it lends itself to forming neat, concise code… Like most things in Ruby, actually. Setting Values Concisely … Continue reading
The two keywords yield and super allow you to pass control back and forth between parent and child methods, to weave power between a more general method (in the parent class) and a more specific method (in the child class) … Continue reading