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I'm Sean.

I write about #software, #SaaS, #consulting and #mobile app development

I code in #Python, #PHP, #Swift, #Ruby, #ReactJS and #Postgres


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Set Cron Job to Run Every Five Minutes for a Ruby on Rails Rake Task
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...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Upgrade RVM on Mac OS X
I had an old version of rvm installed and wanted to upgrade. So old in fact that the resource for upgrading no longer existed. rvm update just returned a 301, redirect. Luckily, the following worked # checks out from repo rvm update --head # will re...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Programmatically Turn Off Comments in Wordpress with Filter
To turn comments off programmatically with a filter in Wordpress, you can set the post object's comment_status variable to "closed". Call the filter at some point after the post is loaded but before the comments are rendered. This is a hack, but I haven't...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Ruby Rand Range
I assumed that rand would take a range as an argument. Something like rand(10..20), generating a random number between 10 and 20. Seems like you'd do this fairly often when working with random numbers and therefore, included. However, it doesn't work. But...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Changing GitHub Issue State in Git Commit Message
Changing issue state in git commit message for Github issues fixes #xxx fixed #xxx fix #xxx closes #xxx close #xxx closed #xxx Example git commit -am'complete bug fix closes #123'
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012