How To Write Your Own Time Comparison Function in Ruby Like time_ago_in_words Without Rails
# time_ago_in_words(Time.now, 1.day.ago) # => 1 day
# time_ago_in_words(Time.now, 1.hour.ago) # => 1 hour
def time_ago_in_words(t1, t2)
s = t1.to_i - t2.to_i # distance between t1 and t2 in seconds
resolution = if s > 29030400 # seco...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/17/2013
Git Feature Branch Naming Strategy
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
-- Phil Karlton
Typically, we have three main branches at any given time in a project lifecycle.
master, development and staging.
Master is production ready code, d...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Just Get SQL Statement Error with SQLAlchemy Python Database Wrapper
If you're working with SQLAlchemy, the best database driver for Python, and want to see only SQL syntax errors, you need to use the StatementError exception class. On it, is an attribute `orig`, that contains just the SQL syntax error... and not any data...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/10/2018
Absolutize Relative Links Using PHP and Preg_Replace_Callback
I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable.
<?php
$domain =...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Send_File in Production Delivers an Empty File
If you're running Rails in production it will by default be configured to let apache or nginx send files for you. If you're handling file downloads yourself with send_file
send_file("path/to/file.txt")
you will notice that the downloaded files are empty...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
