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Rails in practice - Compare records

Rails in practice - Group records by condition

Working with dates in Ruby

Parsing european date format in Ruby/Rails

Overriding class methods in Ruby

Class methods in Ruby are methods that work without being tied to any particular object (Java and PHP5 have static methods for similiar purpose). Class methods are distinguished from instance methods by placing the class name and a period in front of the method name. One thing that may not be obvious if you want to inherit class method is how to call equally named class method from parent class.

Ruby / Rails alternative to PHP print_r() and var_dump()