Rails Find All by Birthday: How to Find Upcoming Birthdays with ActiveRecord
There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get a list but properly handle the full birthday elsewhere, s...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
upgrading to latest phusion passenger 2.1.2
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...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Add User Directories to Apache2 Web Server
You can either link up the modules yourself like this:
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.load
Or you can use the Apach...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Create Blurry Background Images Programmatically from the Command Line or with Ruby
Turn this
into this
You can use ImageMagick to make blurry images.
To install with Homebrew on OS X.
brew install imagemagick
After installing you can run from the command line
convert yourimage.png -channel RGBA -blu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013
A Couple of Usefule Snippets When Working with Textmate
Here is the snippet
f path/to/directory 'search string' | open_in_mate
This snippet (technically 2 snippets) will recursively scan the contents of files in a directory and then open all the files it finds in Textmate.
It's useful on large projec...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/18/2013