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  • Charles Strawn
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    example2.rb is not working in Ruby version 2.0.0p353

    Posted May 7, 2015 9:59pm by Charles Strawn
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  • Romina Palacios
    Romina Palacios
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    I like how throughout the videos his hair keeps on growing.

    Posted January 31, 2015 2:19am by Romina Palacios
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  • David Bell
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    Why would I use blocks instead of creating functions or methods?

    Posted January 28, 2015 1:20am by David Bell
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  • Allen Wang
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    What does the |a| do at the end of the how_many.times call?

    Posted January 14, 2015 12:52am by Allen Wang
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  • jay niceness
    jay niceness
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    Block confusion...

    Posted November 25, 2014 6:20am by jay niceness
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  • jay niceness
    jay niceness
    7,406 Points

    Why so you add a number *= 2 line in the block and not explain why it didn't change the array? thanks

    Posted November 25, 2014 5:27am by jay niceness
    jay niceness
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  • Vincent DeFrancesco
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    Operating on yielded value inside block

    Posted November 20, 2014 6:07pm by Vincent DeFrancesco
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  • abhishek pareek
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    Passing a block as a parameter to a function while using yield?

    Posted October 16, 2014 5:21pm by abhishek pareek
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  • Andrew Stelmach
    Andrew Stelmach
    12,583 Points

    Don't understand what's asked in the Extra Credit

    Posted October 12, 2014 8:44pm by Andrew Stelmach
    Andrew Stelmach
    12,583 Points
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    • Ruby Foundations
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    4 Answers

  • Artful Wisdom
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    Ruby console

    Posted October 10, 2014 9:35am by Artful Wisdom
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    • Ruby
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    3 Answers

  • Andrew Stelmach
    Andrew Stelmach
    12,583 Points

    Why are brackets not needed here?

    Posted October 8, 2014 10:13pm by Andrew Stelmach
    Andrew Stelmach
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    • Ruby
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    1 Answer

  • David Forero
    David Forero
    5,492 Points

    I am having trouble understanding the block concept. It's unclear.

    Posted October 3, 2014 1:39am by David Forero
    David Forero
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    • Ruby
    • Ruby Foundations
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  • Taylor Plante
    Taylor Plante
    22,283 Points

    Why does Jason pass the argument (numbers=10) in the show_numbers method?

    Posted September 19, 2014 4:32am by Taylor Plante
    Taylor Plante
    22,283 Points
    • Ruby
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    • Blocks
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    5 Answers

  • Nicholas Lee
    Nicholas Lee
    12,474 Points

    What does \t and \n\n do in the benchmarker example?

    Posted August 15, 2014 6:01pm by Nicholas Lee
    Nicholas Lee
    12,474 Points
    • Ruby
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  • PAUL JULIAN
    PAUL JULIAN
    16,038 Points

    BLOCK NAME

    Posted July 6, 2014 1:57pm by PAUL JULIAN
    PAUL JULIAN
    16,038 Points
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    4 Answers

  • Hoormazd Kia
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    Courses Plus Student 6,075 Points

    syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end

    Posted June 23, 2014 6:23am by Hoormazd Kia
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    Courses Plus Student 6,075 Points
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    • Ruby Foundations
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    2 Answers

  • botwin
    botwin
    6,069 Points

    Ruby Foundations > Blocks > EC: comparison of Fixnum with nil failed (ArgumentError)

    Posted March 24, 2014 8:48pm by botwin
    botwin
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