How to Recover a Mistakenly Deleted Branch
Workflow
git checkout -b _new_branch_name
# do some work and commit changed
git checkout master
git branch -d _new_branch_name
# doh... i meant to merge first
Fortunately, you can easily recover from this mistake.
git reflog
395b1ea HEAD@{0}: checkout...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Email Obfuscation and Extraction from Text with Rails
There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails.
mail_to "me@domain.com", "My email", :encode => "hex"
# => My email
If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Color Output with Test:Unit, AutoTest and Ruby 1.9
If you are testing using Test:Unit (rather than RSpec) and you're using Ruby 1.9.* colorized output of your tests using Autotest will not be immediately available. Since, 1.9 comes with mini test the test/unit/ui/console/testrunner.rb script is not loaded...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
XPath with HTML in PHP One Liner
Here is a one liner for using XPATH with HTML in PHP
$doc = new DOMXPath(@DOMDocument::loadHTML(file_get_contents("https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/")));
Now you can use XPATH to query the html..
foreach($doc->query("//a") as $el){
echo $el->no...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/14/2017
Scope Routes/URLs By Username (like Twitter) in Your Rails Application
There are a few things that need to be taken care of before you can get this to work. The first thing (although, any of the following steps can be done in any order) to take care of involves your User model. You need to override the to_param method, so th...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
