Collect, Detect, Inject, Reject, Select and so many more enumerable methods! Jun 2
Ruby is a super fun programming language to learn. For learning the basics, again I would recommend checking out Chris Pines' Learn to Program (also available in a less up to date version for freeeee).
There are many awesome Ruby concepts that are...
Battle of the Games Hackfest 2014 - Second Place! May 19
Omg! 2nd place with @jeffrosoft in Battle of the Games Hackfest! Thank you @gSchool @quickleft @bldrstartupweek pic.twitter.com/ryuKjDqK5e
— Emily Platzer (@EmilyPlatzer) May 13, 2014
Last week was Boulder Startup Week. There were so many great events...
Rails and Postgres May 12
Guess what we are going to do today? Make a Rails app using PostgreSQL! Hooray! So what is our project going to be about? Lets make a list of songs and link some hott tunes up in here. CD into the parent directory of where you would like this project...
Creating a Web App with Sinatra and PostgreSQL May 5
So last week we created an app with Sinatra using an array as our data storage. If you played around with that, you realize that it has a major shortcoming… every time you restart the server, all your data has vanished! Well, that’s not really going...
Florence, a New Knitting Pattern! May 1
Hooray! Fancy Tiger Crafts has just released my fourth published knitting pattern, the Florence Shawl! This shawl is named after my grandmother Florence Salzmann. Here my sister Amber is modeling the pattern in Fancy Tiger Craft’s Heirloom Romney...
Creating a Basic Web App with Sinatra Apr 28
Greetings and Salutations.
Today we are going to make a basic web app from scratch using Sinatra. Let’s get this party started!
$ mkdir love_notes
$ cd love_notes
$ git init
$ bundle init
Alrighty, what gems do you think we need? Well, we will need...
Test Driving with RSpec Apr 21
Lets write some classes from scratch using RSpec. This is great way to start learning about definition of classes and test driven development. We will start by making a directory, cd-ing into it, initializing a git repository, initializing...
Obligatory Ruby Plush Apr 17
So gSchool, yo. We have Retrospectives on Thursday… we draw a happy face, question mark and sad face on the board. Each person takes a turn and adds something to the board in one of those columns. To indicate whose turn it is, we pass around the...
Making a Timer in Ruby Apr 14
Did you know that your computer can talk to you? Try pasting the below code into your terminal…
$ say -v "Cellos" "Emily Platzer Makes Things is totes awesome, yo"
What the what? So cool, right? Mess around with that for a bit, and try pasting the...
Simple Silk Shirt Apr 10
I love silk. So much. I can put on a silk shirt and feel dressed up and yet feel so comfortable.
Also, a huge shout out to great establishments like Fancy Tiger Crafts and Elfriede’s who carry such lovely fabrics. The piece of silk used in this...