Ferret is a full text search engine based on the popular Lucene Engine, which is originally written for Java. There is a great tutorial available here: http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial Assuming you have the plugin installed, act...

To specify which mode you'd like the rails console to boot up in, just provide the string without any flags. ./script/console production ./script/console test ./script/console development If you're on windows, remember the backslash "\" rather than for...

Sample Ruby on Rails database config file for connecting to mysql. production: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: db_production pool: 5 username: db_user password: db_password #socket: /tmp/mysql.sock #this may vary ...

TinyMCE is a nice little WYSIWYG for text processing online. It uses iFrames and Javascript callbacks to manipulate textarea form fields. Using it with Rails can be somewhat problematic if you want to set up an observer on a field that TinyMCE is managing...

To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...

First off you'll need to edit your cron file. Normally, the cron files are kept under /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly but we can just use the command line tool, crontab and pass it the -e flag, so that we can edit the file without any fuss. sudo cron...

How to validate uniqueness in a :has_many :through relationship with Ruby on Rails. You'll need three models in this example List, Subscriber and ListSubscriber. A list has many subscribers and a subscriber has many lists. Simple enough. Running the follo...

Thought I'd share a snapshot of this error message from youtube.com. It's nice to know that their monkeys are highly trained. I figured they just got those lazy monkeys who work for bananas. 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team o...

Take advantage of the named_scope method in your models and make find queries simple and beautiful! #app/models/comment.rb class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :post named_scope :pending, :conditions => ["pending = ?", true] named_scope :...

A buddy of mine is a talented, but paranoid System Administrator for a small web company. He refuses to see the truth and the beauty in the wonderful world made possible by cloud computing services like Amazon's EC2. Amazon is not the only game in town. T...