Turn Off SSL Verification In Ruby
The following code will disable SSL verification when using Open SSL.
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
It is probably not a good idea to do this in production. But if you are just testing on your development
machine it might...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
Ruby Reload! Method in Non Rails IRB Sessions
I love the Rails reload! function when in the console. I need it in Irb. To get it back this is what I did. If you don't already have an .irbrc file in your home directory, just create it.
vim ~/.irbrc
or textmate if you prefer
mate ~/.irbrc
Add this...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger ./script/console production fails and instead returns Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.5) Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.2. Please install RubyGems and try again: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org
After installing Ruby Enterprise Edition, REE, and Passenger on Ubuntu you may see this error message when you run script/console for the first time
./script/console production
# =>
Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.5)
Rails requires RubyGems >=...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Intercepting the Wordpress Loop with Pre_get_posts
#deprecated (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Post_.26_Page_Parameters)
Using the "pre_get_posts" filter you can intercept the Wordpress loop and override or set attributes in the "$query" object. This is useful because you c...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Style Params in Python and Flask
Ruby on Rails does a great job of parsing arrays in form data and populating a params hash, for quick and easy access in your controllers.
For instance
Gives you
params[:item] # => ["item 1", "item 2"]
Flask doesn't do this work f...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2018
