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using rails paperclip plugin on ubuntu
paperclip is an awesome plugin for rails. it let's you attach an image to any of your models. installation and usage more information is available at http://jimneath.org/2008/04/17/paperclip-attaching-files-in-rails/ by default paperclip uses the image m...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Moodle's Most Important Function Gets No Attention
Arguably the most important function in the Moodle API, is the create_course function. One would think... after all Moodle is an LMS. Courses are the bread and butter for course management platforms, right? Taking a look at the function in the course/lib....
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Active Admin Rails 5 undefined method per_page_kaminari
If you run into this error in development, using Rails 5 and Active Admin NoMethodError - undefined method `per_page_kaminari' Try the following. First, make sure you have an initializer in your application. # in config/initializers/kamina...
Written by Sean Behan on 04/27/2017
Protect a Directory with Apache, .htaccess and httpasswd
Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so: htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Read and Write to a Single Cell Using PHP and Google Spreadsheets API
This post assumes you've created a project with Google's web console and downloaded a client_secret.json file from the credentials page. If not, more info is here.. https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/03/google-spreadsheets-and-php.html Note: The tuto...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/11/2018