If you use a consistent date format often in your Rails applciation, it is worth it to add the format to your application environment. You can do this by adding  it to the bottom of the config/environment.rb file. Time::DATE_FORMATS[:my_custom_format] ...

I wrote a review for Joseph Thibault's Moodle News on extension development for Moodle. The book is quite good and I think an essential resource for anyone wanting to develop in Moodle. The book focuses on plugin development, but it will also give you an ...

There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get a list but properly handle the full birthday elsewhere, s...

Workshop Dog is a free events calendar for dog training workshops and group lessons. Users can list their training workshops as well as create a business profile. Jobs may be posted to the site for a small fee. Events that are created are distributed to...

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' ...