First off you'll need to edit your cron file. Normally, the cron files are kept under /etc/cron.daily or /etc/cron.hourly but we can just use the command line tool, crontab and pass it the -e flag, so that we can edit the file without any fuss. sudo cron...

TinyMCE is a nice little WYSIWYG for text processing online. It uses iFrames and Javascript callbacks to manipulate textarea form fields. Using it with Rails can be somewhat problematic if you want to set up an observer on a field that TinyMCE is managing...

When running raw SQL queries in Django you must include a primary key otherwise an invalid query exception is raised. Normally this is fine but when running more complex queries a primary key may not be available or even make sense. There is a simple ...

This is one of my favorite videos on the internet. It is what got me interested in Rails and made me work toward the goal of running my own business and hopefully soon, launch my own products. ...

super easy gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module will walk you through the install and remember to copy paths to your apache config file. for passenger i kept it in mods-available/passenger.conf and then linked it to mods-enabled ln -s...