How Beautiful is Ruby?
Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand.
Forum.cate...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Link to jQuery Source from Google's CDN
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js
That is the link to the jQuery source hosted by Google on their CDN. It's probably already cached on client machines so it should be as fast as is possible! You can read more/use other Java...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
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
Wildcard VirtualHost with Apache2
Set your ServerAlias directive to *.domain.tld - Here is a quick example.
<VirtualHost>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/path/to/site
</VirtualHost>
Now everything.example.com and anything.example.co...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012