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Rails naming conventions

General Ruby conventions

Class names are CamelCase.

Methods and variables are snake_case.

Methods with a ? suffix will return a boolean.

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

I curate a list of interesting CLI tools, below are some command line tools that I personally love and use

tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
ripgrep - Search text for patterns fast.
fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.
exa - Replacement for ls written in rust.
git - Version control.
create-react-app - Create React apps with no build configuration.
npx - Execute npm package binaries.
wifi-password - Get the password of the WiFi you're on.

Set GOPRIVATE to match your github organization

I keep fixing this up, but if it fails for you, check if these are better maintained https://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Configuration_for_downloading_non_public_code and https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-modules.

Cloning the repo using one of the below techniques should work correctly but you may still be getting an unrecognized import error.

As it stands for Go v1.13, I found in the doc that we should use the GOPRIVATE variable like so:

GOPRIVATE=github.com/ORGANISATION_OR_USER_NAME go get -u -f github.com/ORGANISATION_OR_USER_NAME/REPO_NAME

The 'go env -w' command (see 'go help env') can be used to set these variables for future go command invocations.

	# codenoid
	# https://gist.github.com/codenoid/4806365032bb4ed62f381d8a76ddb8e6
	printf "Checking latest Go version...\n";
	LATEST_GO_VERSION="$(curl --silent https://go.dev/VERSION?m=text \| head -n 1)";
	LATEST_GO_DOWNLOAD_URL="https://go.dev/dl/${LATEST_GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz"

	printf "cd to home ($USER) directory \n"
	cd $HOME

	printf "Downloading ${LATEST_GO_DOWNLOAD_URL}\n\n";