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Placing an Authenticity Token in a Rails Form
<%= hidden_field_tag :authenticity_token, form_authenticity_token %>
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Use RVM and POW with Ruby 2.0.0
In your project's root directory add a .ruby-version file and add the ruby version to the file ruby-2.0.0-p247 Next source RVM in the .powrc file, also in your project's root directory. source "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" rvm use `cat .ruby-versio...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/19/2013
Ruby on Rails, jQuery and YUI API Docs Available as Mac OS X Dictionary Binaries
I came across an awesome tool this morning. Priit Haamer has chunked Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and some of YUI documentation into native Mac OS X dictionary binaries. This lets you search those API docs from Spotlight, TextMate, any application that uses the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Absolutize Relative Links Using PHP and Preg_Replace_Callback
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 =...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Extract the Title From an HTML Page with Ruby
This snippet will make a request to this page and extract the title from the title tag. require 'open-uri' html = open('http://www.seanbehan.com/how-to-extract-the-title-from-an-html-page-with-ruby').read title = html.match(/(.*)/) { $1 } pu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013