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

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Install do_mysql Ruby Gem on Mac OS X
I ran into the same problem when installing mysql gem for Rails development. This fix worked for me http://seanbehan.com/programming/fixing-mysql-for-rails-2-2-development-on-mac-os-x/ The same thing works with the data objects gem. Just specify the path...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Read Response Body HTML with Javascript Fetch Method with React Native
In React Native you see a lot of tutorials and articles using the `fetch` method when interacting with `JSON` APIs. It's great for this and the the pattern looks like this fetch(url).then((resp)=>{ return resp.json() }).then((json)=>{ console.log(json...
Written by Sean Behan on 07/17/2017
Send Mail in Ruby with a Pony
Great little gem that let's you quickly and easily send out mail from your ruby scripts. gem install pony require 'rubygems' require 'pony' Pony.mail :from=>"me@example.com", :to=>"you@example.com", :subject=>"hello", :body=>"world"
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing RedMine PM Software on Apache with Phusion and REE and Seeing a 404 Page Not Found Error on Installation
If you follow the instructions on how to install the Rails Redmine PM Software (available here) and are using Apache with Passenger (REE), you need to delete the .htaccess file that is kept in RAILS_ROOT/public directory. Otherwise you'll see a 404 page n...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Super Simple Router for React Without Any Dependencies
Here is some very simple code to render React components dynamically without using a framework or routing library. It doesn't cover pushState and URL parsing, so in that sense it isn't a routing library. But it does let you render components from othe...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/16/2018