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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.
Rethinking Email as a To-Do List
Email revolutionized the way in which we communicate. But it's become annoying. Here is a new way of thinking about managing your inbox.
Round to the nearest 0.5 in Ruby
A cool and quick trick to round floats to the nearest 0.5 in Ruby.
Multiple Line "If" Statement in CoffeeScript
There are lots of different ways to move "if" statements in CoffeeScript into multiple lines. Pick the one you like the best!
Upgrading Homebrew for Mac OS X Yosemite
A new operating system means taking a few minutes to upgrade Homebrew. Here is how I went through the process.
Run Multiple Rails Servers at the Same Time
It's annoying to shut down and start up your Rails server when jumping between projects. Learn how to run multiple servers at the same time.
Preview Emails in Rails
Rails 4.1 introduced the ability to preview email messages from your mailers without sending an email. Learn how ...
Order Rails Query by Virtual Attribute
Rails' scopes don't work well with virtual attributes since they resolve to a SQL query. Instead you can throw them in an array and then sort by a virtual attribute.
How To Reverse a Ruby Hash
It's nice and easy to reverse a ruby array. See how to easily convert a hash as well.
Rails has_many :through Polymorphic Association
How to maintain HMT behavior on a polymorphic association.
Related Content (without metadata) in Rails using tf-idf
Sometimes metadata isn't available. Other times you don't want to rely on it. Here's a method for finding related content using term frequency / inverse document frequency.