Wildcard VirtualHost with Apache2
Set your ServerAlias directive to *.domain.tld - Here is a quick example.
<VirtualHost>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/path/to/site
</VirtualHost>
Now everything.example.com and anything.example.co...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Manage Fixtures with Yaml DB Plugin for Rails
Get the plugin like so...
script/plugin install git://github.com/adamwiggins/yaml_db.git
This command will dump your data
rake db:data:dump
And load it back
rake db:data:load
Beautiful :) More info here
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2007/11/23/yam...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Dump MySQL Database without Drop Table Syntax
Output .sql file for MySQL but without the drop table syntax before table name use the --skip-add-drop-table flag
mysqldump -u root -p database_name --skip-add-drop-table --skip-lock-tables > database_name.sql
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 Export A MySQL Database to JSON, CSV and XML with Ruby and the ActiveRecord Gem
It's trivial to export data from a mysql database with Ruby and ActiveRecord. All you have to do is establish a connection and define a class that represents the table.
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_con...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/23/2012
