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March 26, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Different Collection Types in Ruby

In computer science, a collection or container is a grouping of some variable number of data items (possibly zero) that have some shared significance to the problem being solved and need to be operated upon together in some controlled fashion. – Wikipedia In Ruby the most common collection types used are known as Array and…

March 7, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Configuration With a Singleton Instance

I was considering how I might want to further implement my gem and incorporate configuration settings for it. I wanted only one instance of my configuration and it needed to be part of my module. So I’ve come up with a solution I like that allows me to do this and even have a true…

January 16, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

The 500 Millisecond Rails Partial

Click… 15 seconds later: “Something went wrong”. So that happened. I’d written a web based email client and it was taking too long to load. If it reached 15 seconds it would quit because of the servers time-out setting. Here’s my journey into finding out what went down. First things first, I needed to know…