Programming

I had a combination of class and instance methods that I wanted to include into a model in Rails. The normal approach to do this would be to move all the instance methods into a module called Updateable and all the class methods into another module called UpdateableClassMethods - and

Ruby Blocks is something all Ruby developers use everyday. For example, while using the each, times, or  upto methods or the countless other Enumerable module methods, we normally pass a block along with the method. For example: 1.upto(5) {|i| puts(i)} The code included in the brackets {} is

One of the benefits of programming in ruby is that it is easy to write short methods. This is helpful as it makes it easier to test different methods in isolation. Also, most importantly it's easier to read the class when the class is constructed of small methods.

This article looks at how to generate SSH keys and use them to login via the mac terminal. This is useful if you want to view your database logs from the terminal. Skip to the bottom of the article if you are using digital ocean and want to access the