Load All ActiveRecord::Base Model Classes in Rails Application
Here is a simple rake task which will instantiate all of your Active Record models, provided that they are located in the RAILS_ROOT/app/models directory. Interestingly, all plugin models are instantiated by default when you run the task, for instance, if...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Email Regex
Regular Expression that Matches Email Addresses:
/\b[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\b/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Git: How to Delete a Branch with an Invalid Name
If you've named a branch beginning with two dashes "--", you're sort of in trouble because git interprets your branch name as a switch/flag. You can skip switches all together
by supplying two dashes before your branch name
git branch -d -- --index_for_...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Uploading Files with Curl
curl -i -F name=test -F filedata=@localfile.jpg http://example.org/upload
Courtesy of http://ariejan.net/2010/06/07/uploading-files-with-curl/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Validate Uniqueness on Join Tables in Rails
How to validate uniqueness in a :has_many :through relationship with Ruby on Rails. You'll need three models in this example List, Subscriber and ListSubscriber. A list has many subscribers and a subscriber has many lists. Simple enough. Running the follo...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
