How to Get a Random Item from an Array in PHP
Use this snippet for grabbing a random item from an array in php
$fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'carrot', 'date', 'elderberry'];
echo array_rand(array_flip($fruits));
// => 'banana'
PHP's `array_flip` makes the keys the values and the valu...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/10/2017
My First Ruby Gem: Hashed_Attributes
I just wrote and released my first Ruby Gem, Hashed Attributes https://rubygems.org/gems/hashed_attributes. It is a very simple ActiveRecord extension for saving variables through a serialized hash. The Gem will let you declare getter and setter methods t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Change the Default Controller Name in Rails Functional Tests
Rails will infer the controller you want to test from the class name of the test case. For example...
class PeopleControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
end
will test the app/controllers/people_controller.rb.
To change this is trivial. Us...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/23/2013
How To Remove Duplicates From a Table with Postgres
Let's create a table that will hold some dummy data.
> create table fruits (id serial primary key, name varchar, color varchar);
> insert into fruits (name, color) values ('apple', 'red');
> insert into fruits (name, color) values ('ap...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/08/2013
Convert Array to Object in PHP
function array2obj($data) {
return is_array($data) ? (object) array_map(__FUNCTION__,$data) : $data;
}
Source: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/php/how-to-convert-array-notation-to-object-notation...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
