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...

If you're working with SQLAlchemy, the best database driver for Python, and want to see only SQL syntax errors, you need to use the StatementError exception class. On it, is an attribute `orig`, that contains just the SQL syntax error... and not any data...

Changing issue state in git commit message for Github issues fixes #xxx fixed #xxx fix #xxx closes #xxx close #xxx closed #xxx Example git commit -am'complete bug fix closes #123'

wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-0.900_2.tar.gz tar xzvf redis-0.900_2.tar.gz cd redis-0.900 make mv redis-server /usr/bin/ mv redis-cli /usr/bin/

To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...