Repost
This post is inspired by
http://pupeno.com/blog/really-resetting-the-database/#comment-1179. But as my blog mostly serves as a reference for my future self, I'd like to reprint this little snippet of code here as well.
namespace :db do
desc "Crush a...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
How to Create A Unix Timestamp or the Epoch in Python
It's a little convoluted. Seeing as it's a pretty common thing you use when programming computers one might think that there would be a quick and easy method for it. But from what I can tell there isn't. So here is a snippet that will give you a *nix Epoc...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/02/2013
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
How to Enable UUIDs in Postgres
The first thing you'll need to do is enable the extension
create extension "uuid-ossp";
To test that it's working
select uuid_generate_v1();
For more info on which version of the algorithm you should use refer to the documentation.
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/03/2017