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I have been doing a lot of about convience methods in Ruby lately. I have, noticed others that over use the convience of creating a class with instance level methods and wrapping all of it in a class level method for convience. (this is not new to me - just to be clear. Rather something I am reflecting on)

consider:

class FunkyBusiness
  attr_reader :initial_state

  def initialize(initial_state)
    @initial_state = initial_state

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  def bypass_current_user(user, &block)
    raise "Block must be given.." unless block_given?
    $current_user = user
    begin
      ApplicationController.class_exec do
        alias original_current_user current_user
        def current_user
          $current_user
        end
        yield

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$(function() {
  var updatingCheckboxes = false,
      $components        = $('.component-checkbox');
  $components.change(function(e) {
    if(updatingCheckboxes) { return; }
    var $el     = $(this),
        checked = $el.attr("checked");
    if(checked) {
      e.preventDefault();
      updatingCheckboxes = true;

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$(function() {


  var $form      = $("form#hosted-payment-form"),
      $submit    = $form.find("input[type='submit']"),
      $label     = $form.find("label[for='subscription_payment_profile_attributes_billing_zip']"),
      submitText = $submit.val();

  // Mark billing zip as required
  $label.text("*" + $label.text());

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class Test
    # :( wish this worked
  private def self.bar
    puts "self bar"
  end

  # would be nice to not have to do this
  class << self
    private def nook
      puts "self nook"

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module Refinement
  refine String do
    def reverse
      self[0..1]
    end
  end

end

class Boom

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require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inquiry.rb'

def speak_like_a(val)
  is = val.inquiry
  if is.chicken?
    puts "bagaaawk"
  elsif is.pig?
    puts "oink"
  else
    puts "sorry don't know what tongue that speak in"

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desc 'creates a new post prefixed with the current date'
task :post, :name, :title, :categories do |task, args|
  File.open(File.join('_posts', Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-#{args[:name].split(' ').join('-')}.markdown")), 'w') do |file|
    file << <<-DOC
---
layout: post
title: "#{args[:title].downcase}"
date: #{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S")}
categories: #{args[:categories].downcase}
---

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# The wrong way to make a class level method private

class Foo
  def self.bar
    p "bar"
  end
  
  private
  
  def self.baz

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  function clogs() {
    if [[ -d log ]]; then
      echo 'cleaning logs'
      : > log/*.log
    else
      echo 'logs dir not found'
    fi
  }