Testing current_user and Sessions with Sinatra and Rack Test
Assume you have your standard Sinatra application.
# app.rb
require 'sinatra'
configure do
enable :sessions
end
get '/' do
if session[:user_id]
"OK"
else
raise "NOT OK!"
end
end
To test this you need to make a re...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
Backup and Rotate MySQL Databases Simple Bash Script
Make a directory ( it can anywhere ) called baks/mysql
mkdir -p /baks/mysql
Create a file (it can be anywhere) called /root/mysql_backups.sh and put this script in it
#!/bin/bash
# modify the following to suit your environment
export DB...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/16/2017
NO Table Cell Spacing Please
Remove cell padding on a table you add the cellspacing attribute and set it to "0". Is there a better way to do this with straight up CSS? Nothing seems to work...
<table id='my-favorite-table' cellspacing="0" >
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Combat Spam with the Akismet Class for Ruby
Here is the Akismet.rb class, written by David Czarnecki. I've seen several tutorials online using this class, however, the class isn't available at David's blog. So... I reposted it here and at the pastie link below
http://pastie.org/1150693
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Nesting Resources in Rails Routes.Rb with Namespaces
When I have a controller that takes more than one has_many argument, I think about creating a namespace. This way I may still use my forums, pages controllers w/out needing any conditional logic, testing for the presence of :course_id in the params hash.
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
