Installing Feedzirra RSS Parser on Ubuntu 8
I recently watched a RailsCasts episode (http://railscasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing) on parsing and persisting RSS feeds using Feedzirra. It took a little setting up on Ubuntu because it relies on some libraries that aren't included with Ubuntu > 8.
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails: Expiring a cached page with namespaces and sweepers
I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Pipe To A Ruby Command Line Application
You need to read from STDIN rather than parse command line arguments.
while $stdin.gets
puts $_
end
Written by Sean Behan on 10/17/2013
Simple SQL for Counting New Signups
Here is a little snippet that will return new signups (or new records) for today
select id, email, created_at::date date from signups
where email not in (select distinct email from signups where created_at < current_date)
Written by Sean Behan on 07/13/2017
How to Read Response Body HTML with Javascript Fetch Method with React Native
In React Native you see a lot of tutorials and articles using the `fetch` method when interacting with `JSON` APIs. It's great for this and the the pattern looks like this
fetch(url).then((resp)=>{ return resp.json() }).then((json)=>{ console.log(json...
Written by Sean Behan on 07/17/2017