Use a Cron Job to Automate Sphinx Index Refresh from Rails Rake Task
If using Sphinx, you need to refresh indexes when you add new content to your database. This is fairly easy to do by hand
rake thinking_sphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
But if you want to automate this and use a cron, remember to set the PATH, SHELL an...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Reusing Scopes (Formerly Named_scope) In Rails 3
You can easily chain scopes together in your models.
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :ordered, order('position ASC')
scope :published, ordered.where('published = ?', true)
scope :for_homepage, published.limit(3)
end
Article.for_homepage...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Setup Wildcard Subdomain on Localhost for Development Work without /Etc/hosts TomFoolery
Step 1.
Open up your browser and visit http://www.hexxie.com. You can also go to anything.hexxie.com and everything.hexxie.com, which will resolve to your local machine (assuming it's localhost at 127.0.0.1).
How it works
Super simple. I just pointed hex...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Output Logger and SQL to the Rails Console in Development Mode
If you want to take a look at the SQL being generated by active record while your using the console, you can either type this into the console when it loads
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Or you can add it to your environment so that it'...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
