It's Short and sweet! Just remember that the finished zip filename is the first argument and the directory you wish to recursively zip comes after. zip -r name_of_your_directory.zip name_of_your_directory That's all. You might be intere...

You can download it here http://github.com/suitmymind/acts-as-taggable-on-steroids as well as read usage info (which is for the most part reprinted here). ./script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids ....

Just for reference, here are the carrier email addresses for sending email as an SMS. Look up the carrier for the phone in question, then send an email in this format [telephonenumber]@[carrier-name.com] Carrier Email to SMS Gateway Alltel [10-digit p...

The documentation for Python's shutil.make_archive is very confusing. Considering that the arguments to this function only need to be source and destination, makes it even more frustrating to try and reason about. Here are the relevant docs from the p...

If you want to get version information about a gem the easiest way to do it is with this command gem list For example gem list activemerchant will output the activemerchant versions I have installed. You can pass only part of the name like gem list ...