How To Fix ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError with Sinatra
If you get this error message
ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError could not obtain a database connection within 5.000 seconds (waited 5.001 seconds)
Try closing the connection after each request using "after" in Sintara.
# app.rb
after { A...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/09/2013
JSON::GeneratorError: only generation of JSON objects or arrays allowed
If you run into this error message try switching to an earlier version of ExecJs.
JSON::GeneratorError: only generation of JSON objects or arrays allowed
# Gemfile
gem 'execjs', '~> 1.4'
gem 'coffee-script'
gem 'sass'
...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
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
Installing Monk on Ubuntu with Ruby Gems
Installing monk like this will fail
gem install monk
You'll need to install the wycats-thor gem first with this command
gem install wycats-thor -s http://gems.github.com
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Fixing MySQL for Rails 2.2 Development on Mac OS X
Oh what trouble Rails 2.2 and MySQL (on Mac OS X) can be. Rails, as of version >= 2.2, no longer comes bundled with the MySQL adapter. This means you'll need to install it yourself, but it appears that the gem for installing it is also broken.
This will ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012