Today I learned that in Ruby, almost every variable is a reference/pointer to an object. It makes sense, since when working with databases in Rails, calling .destroy actually affected the object in the database instead of destroying a copy. I think it'll be good to note going forward on whether a method returns a copy or actually alters the object being referenced.
Jeeho Lee
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Ruby variables and pointers
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