Using to_sentence method on an Array in Ruby on Rails
Member.all.collect {|member| member.firstname}.to_sentence
=> "Alex, Andy, and Sean"
Declare separator and the connector
Member.all.collect {|member| member.firstname}.to_sentence(
:connector => "and last but not least,",
:skip_last_comma => tr...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Import/Export a Database from One Heroku App to Another Heroku App
Heroku is awesome! Let's say we want to copy a production database to a staging database.
We can use the `pg:backups:restore` command to accomplish this. Here is an example. For the source database we are using the `production-app-name` and for stagi...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/07/2017
Date and Time Helpers in Rails
Just for reference http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M001695
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Onchange Event Fired from Select Field in Rails Form
In the view there is a regular Rails form and a javascript function that will be triggered when the country select field is changed. The javascript function will make an ajax request to the country_select url with the country code passed as the id variabl...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Just Get SQL Statement Error with SQLAlchemy Python Database Wrapper
If you're working with SQLAlchemy, the best database driver for Python, and want to see only SQL syntax errors, you need to use the StatementError exception class. On it, is an attribute `orig`, that contains just the SQL syntax error... and not any data...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/10/2018
