There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar. The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...

There are a number of permalink plugins for Rails, http://www.seoonrails.com/even-better-looking-urls-with-permalink_fu, is a good one that I've used before. However, this involves informing the model class (has_permalink :title), adding a route, using t...

Just for reference http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695 This post was created about ago

I followed the instructions from here http://arvinderkang.com/2009/09/01/installing-scala-on-snow-leopard/ but I used version 2.7.6 (rather than .5) I installed scala under /usr/local/scala so I had to include it to my path. Type vim .bash_profile expor...

Ruby is beautiful @posts = if true Post.all else [] end Simply elegant!

Versioning models with the acts_as_versioned plugin cd rails/app ./script/plugin install git://github.com/technoweenie/acts_as_versioned.git ./script/generate model post title:string body:text In your model class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ve...

I don't do much python development. I really like the language and there are a lot of great software projects out there for it. Tornado, for example, is a fast non-blocking web server in python, just open sourced by Facebook that is the engine behind Frie...

Regular Expression for finding absolute URLs in a bunch of text... like a log file. /(http:(.*?)\s)/

Here is an example using the port 4567 to connect with over ssh and git ssh remote add origin ssh://sean@seanbehan.com:4567/path/to/git git push origin master

Get the plugin like so... script/plugin install git://github.com/adamwiggins/yaml_db.git This command will dump your data rake db:data:dump And load it back rake db:data:load Beautiful :) More info here http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2007/11/23/yam...