The will_paginate plugin for Rails uses a key/value assignment like ?page=2, rather than the pretty url formats such as /page/2 ... This is because url generation and mapping are handled by the routes.rb file. You'll need to modify the file so that rails ...

I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...

Login to your wordpress installation and scroll to and click the second to last link set "Settings". You'll need to configure wordpress to handle your new links as "permalinks". Make a selection and copy the code into your .htaccess file. Wordpress will a...

I'm working on a project that requires users/designers be allowed to edit the layout of their site. I'm using Liquid, Ruby templating system developed by the folks at shopify.com. Doing a little searching I found this great post http://giantrobots.though...

If you use a consistent date format often in your Rails applciation, it is worth it to add the format to your application environment. You can do this by adding  it to the bottom of the config/environment.rb file. Time::DATE_FORMATS[:my_custom_format] ...

You'll need a mail transport agent (MTA). I installed and used postfix using Mac Ports. sudo port install postfix You'll need to start postfix, to send mail from your Rails application. You can set it as a startup item and it will start on boot. However...

Here is a quick way to put the contents of a database table into a simple text file. This could be handy if for example, you just want to grab some emails and pop the results into a simple csv file. Your sql statement can be as creative as sql allows. All...

In your environment.rb file turn off timestamped migrations like so: config.active_record.timestamped_migrations = false