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Today we built and distributed an update of our application - only to find out through lack of proper testing a piece of test data got out..a bad piece of test data…
OH WELL
Today I learned what Ruby symbols actionally _ARE_ - symbolic references to a single string..VERY useful if you had a hash of say { ‘first_name’ => ‘Bob’} . Chances are the string containing first_name will be re-used a bunch - no need to have a new string created each time you hash out a person’s name. use :first_name => ‘Bob’ instead.
Prototype of my FIRST Rails app is ready on the backend (front end still needs work). Tonight I learn how to deploy with Capistrano.
Details on that later.
3 years ago