mentoring notes for Bob on the Ruby track#2391
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| Regular expressions are powerful, but can be illegible. While regex is common in Ruby code, if the student is having a hard time understanding regex it may be better to guide them toward a solution that uses simpler String methods. |
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Exercism uses one sentence per line. See https://exercism.org/docs/building/markdown/markdown#h-one-sentence-per-line
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| ### Predicate Methods | ||
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| The names of predicate methods (methods that return a boolean value) should end in a question mark (i.e. Array#empty?). |
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Nice, and this means that (in general) we do not need has_ or is_ to indicate the query nature of the method.
Co-authored-by: Isaac Good <IsaacG@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Goff <keeperotphones@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Goff <keeperotphones@gmail.com>
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@IsaacG if there is nothing else you see, this can likely come in. |
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forum discussion to link this both ways.