Output Logger and SQL to the Rails Console in Development Mode
If you want to take a look at the SQL being generated by active record while your using the console, you can either type this into the console when it loads
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Or you can add it to your environment so that it'...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
The Context of Markup vs Expressions of Equality in Determining the Meaning of Angled Brackets
In the Wordpress editor (html mode) you'll need to become friends with < and > if you plan on showing any code (php, html... xml, most languages actually) that readers will want to understand.
I never thought about it, but assumed that the lt and...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Override to_param method in model to get pseudo permalinks without any work
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...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Extract Time Information from a Natural Language String with a Regular Expression and PHP
You can easily extract time information from a string with a regular expression and PHP (or any language with regular expressions).
$str = "Here is how to extract time info.. like 4:30 PM and 2:10 AM from a string in PHP";
$rgx = "/\d{1,2}(:?\d...
Written by Sean Behan on 02/26/2018
How to Extract the Title From an HTML Page with Ruby
This snippet will make a request to this page and extract the title from the title tag.
require 'open-uri'
html = open('http://www.seanbehan.com/how-to-extract-the-title-from-an-html-page-with-ruby').read
title = html.match(/(.*)/) { $1 }
pu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
