Take advantage of the named_scope method in your models and make find queries simple and beautiful! #app/models/comment.rb class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :post named_scope :pending, :conditions => ["pending = ?", true] named_scope :...

I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable. <?php $domain =...

Alias an attribute with alias_attribute method. The first argument is the name for the new attribute, while the second argument is to identify the attribute that is already defined. class User < ActiveRecord::Base alias_attribute :username, :login ...

If you thought you had installed matplotlib only to find this File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py", line 166, in __import__('ma', g, l) File "/Library/Python/2.6/...

Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/ This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...