Reacting on Rails

Thoughts on software design, testing, and everything in between.

Tag: ruby

18 Dec
Software Design

5 Ways to Deal with Nil Headaches in Ruby

by Josh Saint Jacque
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Ruby is so much fun in many respects. Everything is an object and all our code are just objects passing messages to one another. We...
24 Oct
Algorithms

Algorithms Exercise: Find the First Duplicate in an Array

by Josh Saint Jacque
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Today’s algorithm comes from code fights. It’s a challenge called firstDuplicate and it goes like this: Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from...
24 Oct
Software Design

Ruby & The Strategy Pattern

by Josh Saint Jacque
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The Strategy pattern is the next in our examination of design patterns and how they can be leveraged in Ruby. This pattern is useful for...