TIL that Ruby, or to be more precise Class class, offers allocate public instance method. According to the documentation the method: Allocates space for a new object of class’s class and does not call initialize on the new instance. The returned object must be an instance of class. The same documentation includes a nice code Read more…
Author: Igor Springer
`ActiveSupport::ArrayInquirer` and even more Rails magic
In the previous article, we dived into ActiveSupport::StringInquirer class and superpowers it gives to String objects. After I had published that article I decided to take another look at the ActiveSupport module and to my surprise, I found something even more interesting, ActiveSupport::ArrayInquirer class.
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…and how to fix them 🙂
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EmberJS custom primary key
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Prevent direct commits to master
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Dynamic class method calling in Ruby
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