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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by _chap on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:19PM (#2485918)
Agreed, some questions are more easily answered through chat and #RubyOnRails on freenode is a great place to get help.

However, I think the cool part is that it's not text. Personally I've find it to be really helpful when I'm stuck just to talk through the problem with somebody else. Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam.

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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by patja on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:40PM (#2486030)
"Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam."

Got my next product idea: mashup of SAM and Eliza as a developer help line

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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by Ygor on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @01:09PM (#2486162)
"Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam."

Hence the rubber duck debugging method:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) by eof on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @06:24PM (#2487466)
I don't think it's the vocalizing per se.. it's really about thinking through your problem with enough depth to explain it to someone else.
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