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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
How to Remove Your Last Git Commit
Remove your last commit (if you haven't pushed yet) git reset --hard HEAD~1 To see changes that have been committed and their position in HEAD git reflog And to undo your previous reset and advance the cursor to the reference immediately behind the cu...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Find the Directory Locations Your XCode App Uses
You can add this snippet to your application, say for instance in your `viewDidLoad` function, that will print to the XCode console, the location of your app while it's being developed. // prints the location of asset my-added-file.txt that you've ad...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/06/2018
Nested Attributes in a Form for Has_One Model Association in Rails
Just for reference... class Member < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :member_profile accepts_nested_attributes_for :member_profile end ...
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