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Have you ever had an array that you only want to include unique elements? list_1 = ['apple', 'orange', 'grape'] list_2 = ['strawberry', 'apple'] combined_list = (list_1 + list_2).uniq combined_list #=> ["apple", "orange", "grape", "strawberry"] In t...
There are several security best practices to protect user data in Ruby on Rails applications. One of which is checking for unauthorized access by a user. This tutorial quickly shows how to check if a user has access to a particular resource before ...
TLDR; a guard clause is a premature return (early exit) that "guards" against the rest of your code from executing if it's not necessary (based on criteria you specify). Soon after I started my career as a Ruby on Rails developer I learned about guar...
For my final project at Flatiron, I created The Anonymous Stock Trading Game. It was an idea I had several months ago and decided to make it my final project. My original idea was to show the first half of an anonymous chart before the game starts. T...
Add a global .gitignore Open the Terminal Run touch ~/.gitignore_global to create a global .gitignore file in the home directory Run open ~/.gitignore_global Add .vscode/ and any other files or directories that you want to ignore and not include in ...
Ruby offers conventional control structures that are found in most common programming languages like if, else and while, however, Ruby also provides less common options like until and unless. These control structures may seem weird at first (“who ta...
