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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Refactor multiple similar validations on rails model, reduce repetition
I have a form for job item, that has fields based on a content type.
Those fields are available when an user selects a content type.
Each content type has its specific sub fields
The thing is, ...
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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 (Ruby)
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 ...
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Vigenère cipher in Ruby
What I'm trying to do: implement the Vigenère cipher in Ruby. I already have a working version, but I want to make sure it is efficient and well-designed.
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Keep ABC size down for conditional string concatenation in Ruby
This method takes a comment object and displays it correctly depending on what columns are available. EVENT_TEXT and REASON_TEXT ...
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Mars Rover challenge in Ruby
I have written a simplified version of the Mars Rover challenge in Ruby. Please review it for best coding practices.
A rover’s position and location is represented by a combination of x and y co-...
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Searching for combinations of words and numbers
My model called Customer contains a method called generate_fields which creates records based on its return values.
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LinkedList Implementation
I have created a LinkedList in Ruby and was wondering if anyone had any input on efficiencies that I could add or deficiencies I could remove.
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Rails dynamically changing parts of view but using the same method in controller
I have this update method which decides whether to update or recreate(same as update but resets the approval_status and create_date) of the building_approval object. I have the on_progress? method on ...
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Ruby Beginner - Fuzzy matching / string manipulation
There is no intended end use for this. It is for learning and development only.
I got carried away following an example and ended up with a miniaturised vehicle registration system. You can bulk ...
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ROR - Point of Sale (POS)
I've the following scenario: the user clicks the "Sales" button which redirects to the creation view of the Shopping Cart. Then, the user enters the EAN code and the Quantity, presses "Add" and the ...
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Ruby - Core skills example project (command line vehicle registry)
There are no requirements for this project nor will it ever be used for any purpose.
I used this project to cement my knowledge of basic programming skills, I got bored copying the examples and felt ...
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Short analogue of Riffle[] accepting two blocks
I have an array of some elements that I need to loop through (i.e. execute some block A on each element) but between them I have also to "clean up" (block ...
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Sorting an assortment of strings and integers together, while keeping them separate
I put a solution to this coding problem together. The problem is this:
Create a function that takes an array, finds the most often repeated element(s) within it and returns it/them in an array. The ...
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Esoteric programming language in Ruby
I have recently created an esoteric programming language called 01 and I will be grateful for a code review and any opinions or suggestions about the future of this language.
GitHub
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Download a Git repo without .git folder
Coming from Python, JavaScript and PHP, I'd like to learn to write Ruby in the way it's "supposed to". Well-written Python code is called "Pythonic", so I'd like to know how idiomatic my Ruby code is.
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Arrays of hashes to hash
Task: convert this array of hashes:
animals = [
{"cats" => 3},
{"dogs" => 5 }
]
to this hash:
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