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How to use "ensure" in Ruby

March 14, 2022

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

About This Episode

Using ensure with blocks is extremely helpful for cleaning up things. We'll learn how to use ensure in Ruby for cleaning up open files as well as temporarily changing values for requests or test stubs.

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