Hacking Rails Plugins
Using the Acts as Taggable On plugin to add categories to a model class, I wanted to override the to_param method and place the name attribute in the url. The plugin, installed as a gem, source shouldn't need to be hacked in order to accomplish this. The ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A List of Every High School in the United States in Pipe Delimitted Form (2005)
Here is a text file containing every high school in the United States(2005), including city, state, zip code and high school name.
us_high_schools_pd
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Pretty Formatted JSON from the Command Line
Sometimes you want to see JSON from the command line. I'm sure there are better tools for the job, but here is a little snippet you can throw in your ~/.bash_profile.
function json { curl -s "$1" | python -mjson.tool; }
Usage
json https://g...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/21/2013
Roll Your Own Full Page Caching in Sinatra
It's as simple as this.
# app.rb
get '/:slug' do
@slug = File.basename("#{params[:slug]}")
@cache = "public/cache/#{@slug}.html"
if File.exists?(@cache)
File.read(@cache)
else
@post = Post.find_by(page: params[:slug])
...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/23/2013
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
