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TIL: The Annotate Gem

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Today, while watching a video by CJ Avilla, he used a neat little gem that describes the schema of the models in his project. At 8:32 (video is cued up below) he installs the Annotate gem and then runs an…

Markdown in Ruby on Rails with RedCarpet

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What is Markdown Markdown is a markup language, created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, that allows you to easily format text by using special characters in a text document. When processed, the markdown characters are converted into formatted text.…

Writing Array Elements to CSV in Ruby

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There is nothing more frustrating than realizing that a ruby script failed when processing, and you do not know where it failed and where to pick up the processing. Having the ability to write results or values out to a…