Questions tagged [ruby]
Ruby is a multi-platform, open-source, dynamic, object-oriented, interpreted language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1993.
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Rails: create a relationship between comment and user
I'm trying to connect the create of a comment to the current_user. I have a model comment which is a polymorphic association.
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Concatenate unless note [closed]
mails = []
mails.concat(@note.cc_emails) unless @note.cc_emails.nil?
mails.concat(@note.to_emails) unless @note.to_emails.nil?
Everything what I'm doing here is ...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors completed game
I have just completed my first Ruby OOP project. Fairly simple but still a bit time consuming as I am still learning the language.
I would like feedback and ways I can improve on this and make the ...
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Rails Helper to display rating in stars
Using Rails 6. Here's a piece that I wrote just to display number of stars. Obviously I am disgusted by my own code. How would you refactor?
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Assigning raffle numbers to users in Rails
Background
One part of our Rails app is running a Raffle, usually twice a month, with around 600k entrants each round. Each raffle ticket record will have at least a unique raffle number (consisting ...
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Ruby script for automating software install on a brand new Linux OS
I have some scripts to automate software install, apply some configurations and so on after installing a new system.
I used to have them as bash scripts but it was generally a poor idea.
I have ...
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RSpec shared example for CRUD Controllers that might be nested or not
I've been trying to create a shared example to quickly and efficiently test controllers with CRUD operations that might also be nested.
I came up with this ...
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Removing duplicate hashes in an array while keeping count of the times the hash was present
I have an array of hashes (price_params['items']) where each item has a key called quantity what I'm trying to do is to clean ...
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Translator method failing to translate two words [closed]
Sorry if this has been answered to death—I'm working on a pig latin translator for Odin Project. The code below works fine for individual words, but when it receives two words ("eat pie"), the output ...
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Ruby code to parse and analyze social media stats in json format
What do you think about this code I wrote.
It reads several json files ( I attached them as pastebins)
and the code outputs summary information calculated from the input.
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Incremental, encrypted backups for git
I would appreciate any review of the following script I recently posted on GitHub (gitcrypto). Most notably, I would be interested in a review of the cryptographic aspects (I am not an expert in this ...
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Ruby: Remove middle node from Linked List
Currently, I'm going over the CTCI, I'm working on the problem removing the middle node. I'm using Ruby to go over these problems. I have the following solution.
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Store personal data for later use
I'm new with Ruby and am trying to improve my coding skills. This program gets personal information for three people, and then prints them.
It works, but I'm sure it's not the best and certainly not ...
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Easily interacting with two external apis
Recently I rewrote some methods/functions written by a previous developer mostly due to the fact that the previous implementation overdid the whole 'OO' thing, and used inheritance inappropriately. ...
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better multiple fields validation on ruby/rails
I have a form for an item (Job Item), that has sets of 2 fields based on a type.
field and field + _dolar
e.g: ...
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Repeater for blocks of Ruby
I've written a module for repeating blocks of code, generally to cover issues related to eventual consistency and testing screen elements which may take some time to fully load. It looks like this:
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Command-line implementation of Mastermind
I just finished this command-line implementation of the Mastermind board game that allows two players to play against each other. I'm fairly new to Ruby, but I think I did a decent job with this. ...
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Remove duplicates from an unsorted Linked List in Ruby
Currently I'm going over the cracking the coding interview. I'm in the Linked List 2.1 question which is as follow:
Remove Duplicates, write code to remove duplicates from an unsorted
Linked List....
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Rails initializer to be more clean [closed]
I need a little bit of refactor my initialize method because I think it will make initializer more flexible and readable.
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Dynamically combine ActiveRecord Relation results [closed]
This isn't the actual use-case I have but for simplicity, let's say I have an ActiveRecord Animal model in a Rails app. The Animals have a name (string) and ...
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ActiveRecord Query for many to many association
I have two Models in my Rails 6 / PostgreSQL application which have a many to many relation; Car and Driver. The goal is to get ...
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Calculating p-value for Welch's t-test
I am attempting to translate some of my Perl code to Ruby, from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Welch%27s_t-test
I am a very very beginner with Ruby, but I have verified that this is producing the ...
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Identifying the missing number in an array
This is from LeetCode:
Missing Number
Given an array containing n distinct numbers taken from 0, 1, 2, ...,
n, find the one that is missing from the array.
Example 1:
Input: [3,0,1]...
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Calculate the percentage of sum of hash values
Please review my code and help on How can I make it better calculation in method and class definition with SOLID ruby principles??
The application has a static JSON file which contains:
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Ruby implementation for Hacker Rank connected cells in a grid
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/connected-cell-in-a-grid/problem
problem statement:
Consider a matrix where each cell contains either a 1 or a 0. Any
cell containing a 1 is called a ...
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Add method to Ruby's Enumerable module that produces every nth element
The task is to enhance the Enumerable module with a method nth().
The method shall create a new list, which contains every nth-...
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Rails controller method to show an optionally scaled image using MiniMagick
I've got below implementation for my controller and show action which implements MiniMagick gem. I've just wondering is there any better way to write it down? If ...
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System Dependency Manager - Ruby
I recently got a prompt when looking for a job. To spare any details, the company decided not to get back to me, so because I did not get a code-review/feedback from them, I was wondering if someone ...
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Statistical function which computes the average work time in different months
It's a task from a Ruby-course, in which I'm currently enrolled:
Ruby Course - Page
Precisely it's one of the assignments for the first week.
Following idea:
Your are given a list in which finished ...
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Ruby if block refactor from new synthax needed
I have this, I guess, new Ruby syntax in my method but Rubocop are warning me that the second last line is too long. Could you please help me to refactor this method?
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Update join table using list of checkboxes in Rails
I have Gig and Singer Active Record models (standard--no customization just yet) with a many-to-many relationship through a ...
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Ruby price calculator for groceries
I am good at logic and most of the time I write working code. But I want to learn writing code which follows best practices and is very efficient. I tried to implement some of them in my code but it ...
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Table class to fill array structure with values
The code creates a table and adds rows and columns.
Does it make sense to write the code like this?
Would you design it differently?
Is there a better OOP approach to this?
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Rails 5.2 callbacks to trigger score recalculation for relationships
I have a model that is in a HABTM relationship with 2 other models:
Activity.rb
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Enumerating AWS instances in Rails, with error handling
I have created a method, which is raising the same exception in case of any error:
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Rails route structure for managing tags
I'm hoping someone could vet my route structure as I've really been struggling with getting something that feels right. Right now I have this nested resource structure:
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github page/ DHH Score Challenge in ruby
I wrote the following code which when executed prints the score of https://github.com/dhh.
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Re-creating user discounts nightly
I'm calling these two methods on a Worker that is executed every 24 hours at midnight in the background.
The code seems to be a little bit difficult to read and I'm not sure if i'm iterating through ...
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Getting the count of how many times a route has been hit
I have this log file (example below) and I'm trying to find the number of times a particular route is called.
Example log file:
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Ruby chess engine gem
This is my first Ruby gem that claims to provide all the rules of the chess game. My goal was to keep this library as simple as possible via OOP principles, and I'd be glad to hear any feedback from ...
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Modular multiplicative inverse in Ruby
I implemented an algorithm to find the modular multiplicative inverse of an integer. The code works, but it is too slow and I don't know why. I compared it with an algorithm I found in Rosetta Code, ...
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Ruby on Rails - Creating many models associated with another one
So I have the following models:
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Ruby exercise in writing and reading a file [closed]
I've been asked to improve the modular decomposition of the main by moving as many lines of code out of main as possible, but i have no idea how i should do this
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Ruby command to edit a field in a SAM file
Inspired by a bioinformatics question on Stack Overflow, I wanted to brush up on my Ruby knowledge, since I’ve been meaning to replace my command-line use of Perl by Ruby.
Briefly, the problem ...
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Rspec test for Rails method to return alphabetically sorted list of tags
I have one model class as listed here:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
def tags
comments.map(&:tag).uniq.sort
end
end
and ...
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Adding an item to a hierarchical data structure
What I need to do is create a new object, modify it using a recursive function, then merge it with another object, and do this all in such a way that the values of the new object take precedence over ...
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Validating Amazon CloudFormation templates using Rspec
I have created an open source project that uses Rspec to validate the formatting of AWS::CloudFormation::Init YAML blocks in CloudFormation templates.1
My project is here.
Some general concerns:
Is ...
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(Ruby version) Rotate linked list to the right by k places
I saw this question (javascript - rotate linked list to the right by k places) the other day and I tried implementing it in Ruby in a totally different way. Here's the code (I also created a REPL if ...
