Shopify Application Development

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "To use Rails 4.0.0 with Heroku, we need to add the rails_12factor gem to the Gemfile so that we can precompile our assets."

A block of code is set as follows:

    def obscure_string(string, count)
        return string if count.blank?
        substring = string.slice(0..(-1 * count - 1))
        return string.gsub(substring, "*" * substring.length)
    end

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code ...