How to create a string constant in a ruby block [closed]

Closed 4 days ago.

Cataloging events, projects and tasks: Is SQL appropriate?

I have this idea for a database: it would hold everything I “need to remember”, and allow future coding projects to access the information. These future projects include a day-planner and historical analysis of what I’ve been up to.

Explanation on how “Tell, Don’t Ask” is considered good OO

This blogpost was posted on Hacker News with several upvotes. Coming from C++, most of these examples seem to go against what I’ve been taught.

How much Ruby should I learn before moving to Rails? [closed]

Closed 9 years ago.

Is it possible to use RubyGnome2’s/QtRuby’s HTML renderers to make UI for a Ruby script?

I’d like to make a graphical user interface for my script, instead of running it from the console. I’m aware there’s a wealth of UI libraries for Ruby, but I’m quite familiar with HTML and CSS and I’d like to use them for building an interface. So the question is:

Ruby/RoR development: desktop or server [closed]

Closed 11 years ago.

What is a legitimate reason to use Cucumber?

I’ve worked in several contracts where the client used Cucumber and I’ve often felt that the testing suite didn’t really have a place in our stack.

How do I read API documentation? [closed]

Closed 8 years ago.

Is it worth converting a Django project to Rails?

I have a project I shelved a while back- it was essentially a working web app built in django but I stopped working on it to work on something else.

Should I prefer instance methods over class methods in Ruby?

I’m working on a rails application, and I’ve been pulling functionality out of my rails code and into pure ruby classes in lib/. I’ve found myself often writing classes like this: