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What’s the best way to model recurring events in a calendar application? [closed]

Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be ...

May 23, 2022
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Get underlined text with Markdown

I am using BlueCloth as a Markdown library for Ruby, and I can’t find any syntax for getting a text underlined. What is ...

May 23, 2022
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Given a class, see if instance has method (Ruby)

I know in Ruby that I can use respond_to? to check if an object has a certain method. But, given the class, how ...

May 23, 2022
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What does a double * (splat) operator do

Have you seen a function declared like this? def foo a, **b ... end I understand that a single * is the splat ...

May 23, 2022
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How to create a private class method?

How come this approach of creating a private class method works: class Person def self.get_name persons_name end class << self private def persons_name ...

May 23, 2022
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How do I return early from a rake task?

I have a rake task where I do some checks at the beginning, if one of the checks fails I would like to ...

May 22, 2022
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How to make a HTTP request using Ruby on Rails?

I would like to take information from another website. Therefore (maybe) I should make a request to that website (in my case a ...

May 22, 2022
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What does the question mark at the end of a method name mean in Ruby?

What is the purpose of the question mark operator in Ruby? Sometimes it appears like this: assert !product.valid? sometimes it’s in an if ...

May 22, 2022
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find_spec_for_exe’: can’t find gem bundler (>= 0.a) (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

I used sudo bundle install and that might be the cause of the issue? Now I have: gem -v 2.6.14 ruby -v ruby ...

May 21, 2022
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How do I search within an array of hashes by hash values in ruby?

I have an array of hashes, @fathers. a_father = { "father" => "Bob", "age" => 40 } @fathers << a_father a_father = { ...

May 21, 2022
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