Simple Activity Stream Implementation in Rails
There are many ways to tackle the Facebook style activity stream feature for your app. The simplest approach, which you can tack on at almost any moment, is what I'll describe here. You don't have to create a new model for news feed items or create any po...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Load All ActiveRecord::Base Model Classes in Rails Application
Here is a simple rake task which will instantiate all of your Active Record models, provided that they are located in the RAILS_ROOT/app/models directory. Interestingly, all plugin models are instantiated by default when you run the task, for instance, if...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Mod_Python and Web.py on Ubuntu
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First install mod_python for Apache and then restart/reload the server.
apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
apache2ctl restart
Next grab the web.py framework from webpy.org. You can grab the tar or use easy_in...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Get Child Categories of Parent Category on Single Post in Wordpress
I was hoping to find a function in the Wordpress API, that goes something like this...
the_child_categories("Vermont");
// print Burlington, Brattleboro... etc if this post has any child categories of Vermont
But I could not. The result that I did ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Read and Write to a Single Cell Using PHP and Google Spreadsheets API
This post assumes you've created a project with Google's web console and downloaded a client_secret.json file from the credentials page. If not, more info is here..
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/03/google-spreadsheets-and-php.html
Note: The tuto...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/11/2018