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This example assumes Ruby and Ruby on Rails have already been installed properly. If not, you can find how to do it here. Open up a command line or terminal. To generate a new rails application, use rails new command followed by the name of your application: $ rails new my_app If you want to c...

Continuing a "for" Loop When you put the continue keyword in a for loop, execution jumps to the update expression (i++ in the example): for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) { if (i === 1) { continue; } console.log(i); } Expected output: 0 2 Continuing a While...

Using the def statement is the most common way to define a function in python. This statement is a so called single clause compound statement with the following syntax: def function_name(parameters): statement(s) function_name is known as the identifier of the function. Since a function def...

Functions can return a value that you can use directly: def give_me_five(): return 5 print(give_me_five()) # Print the returned value # Out: 5 or save the value for later use: num = give_me_five() print(num) # Print the saved returned value # Out: 5 or use the value f...

Decorators augment the behavior of other functions or methods. Any function that takes a function as a parameter and returns an augmented function can be used as a decorator. # This simplest decorator does nothing to the function being decorated. Such # minimal decorators can occasionally be used ...

Decorators normally strip function metadata as they aren't the same. This can cause problems when using meta-programming to dynamically access function metadata. Metadata also includes function's docstrings and its name. functools.wraps makes the decorated function look like the original function b...

Sometimes you don't want to have your function accessible/stored as a variable. You can create an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE for short). These are essentially self-executing anonymous functions. They have access to the surrounding scope, but the function itself and any internal va...

When you define a function, it creates a scope. Everything defined within the function is not accessible by code outside the function. Only code within this scope can see the entities defined inside the scope. function foo() { var a = 'hello'; console.log(a); // => 'hello' } consol...

A Promise object represents an operation which has produced or will eventually produce a value. Promises provide a robust way to wrap the (possibly pending) result of asynchronous work, mitigating the problem of deeply nested callbacks (known as "callback hell"). States and control flow ...

The setTimeout() method calls a function or evaluates an expression after a specified number of milliseconds. It is also a trivial way to achieve an asynchronous operation. In this example calling the wait function resolves the promise after the time specified as first argument: function wait(ms) ...

A traditional for-loop A traditional for loop has three components: The initialization: executed before the look block is executed the first time The condition: checks a condition every time before the loop block is executed, and quits the loop if false The afterthought: performed every time a...

import random randint() Returns a random integer between x and y (inclusive): random.randint(x, y) For example getting a random number between 1 and 8: random.randint(1, 8) # Out: 8 randrange() random.randrange has the same syntax as range and unlike random.randint, the last value is no...

break statement When a break statement executes inside a loop, control flow "breaks" out of the loop immediately: i = 0 while i < 7: print(i) if i == 4: print("Breaking from loop") break i += 1 The loop conditional will not be evaluated a...

Standard Creation It is recommended to use this form only when creating regex from dynamic variables. Use when the expression may change or the expression is user generated. var re = new RegExp(".*"); With flags: var re = new RegExp(".*", "gmi"); With a backsl...

Assuming you set the upstream (as in the "setting an upstream repository") git fetch remote-name git merge remote-name/branch-name The pull command combines a fetch and a merge. git pull The pull with --rebase flag command combines a fetch and a rebase instead of merge. git pull ...

You can make Git ignore certain files and directories — that is, exclude them from being tracked by Git — by creating one or more .gitignore files in your repository. In software projects, .gitignore typically contains a listing of files and/or directories that are generated during the build proces...

Changing the text of an existing UILabel can be done by accessing and modifying the text property of the UILabel. This can be done directly using String literals or indirectly using variables. Setting the text with String literals Swift label.text = "the new text" Objective-C // Do...

Optionals are a generic enum type that acts as a wrapper. This wrapper allows a variable to have one of two states: the value of the user-defined type or nil, which represents the absence of a value. This ability is particularly important in Swift because one of the stated design objectives of the ...

Use the import statement: >>> import random >>> print(random.randint(1, 10)) 4 import module will import a module and then allow you to reference its objects -- values, functions and classes, for example -- using the module.name syntax. In the above example, the random module...

Instead of importing the complete module you can import only specified names: from random import randint # Syntax "from MODULENAME import NAME1[, NAME2[, ...]]" print(randint(1, 10)) # Out: 5 from random is needed, because the python interpreter has to know from which resource it...