Using Your Partials in Your Liquid Templates
I'm working on a project that requires users/designers be allowed to edit the layout of their site. I'm using Liquid, Ruby templating system developed by the folks at shopify.com.
Doing a little searching I found this great post http://giantrobots.though...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Collection Select Helper and OnChange Event in Rails
Given a collection of Active Record objects, you may use the collection_select helper method to produce a select form field. You need to pass in a number of arguments to the helper function.
1) object - your model object used in the collection
2) method ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Use a Cron Job to Automate Sphinx Index Refresh from Rails Rake Task
If using Sphinx, you need to refresh indexes when you add new content to your database. This is fairly easy to do by hand
rake thinking_sphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
But if you want to automate this and use a cron, remember to set the PATH, SHELL an...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing Feedzirra RSS Parser on Ubuntu 8
I recently watched a RailsCasts episode (http://railscasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing) on parsing and persisting RSS feeds using Feedzirra. It took a little setting up on Ubuntu because it relies on some libraries that aren't included with Ubuntu > 8.
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Carrier Email Addresses for Sending SMS over Email
Just for reference, here are the carrier email addresses for sending email as an SMS. Look up the carrier for the phone in question, then send an email in this format [telephonenumber]@[carrier-name.com]
Carrier Email to SMS Gateway
Alltel [10-digit p...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
