In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge! zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x '*.psd'

In your environment.rb file turn off timestamped migrations like so: config.active_record.timestamped_migrations = false

mysql driver is no longer bundled w/ rails. you'll need to install it yourself w/ sudo gem install mysql however, on ubuntu (heron) this won't work. issue these commands first sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev if libmysqlclient-dev...

TinyMCE is a nice little WYSIWYG for text processing online. It uses iFrames and Javascript callbacks to manipulate textarea form fields. Using it with Rails can be somewhat problematic if you want to set up an observer on a field that TinyMCE is managing...

Stateless components are nice. They are simple to use and understand but can become tricky when you start thinking about data and how to manage state. In general, the consensus seems to be that if your UI is going to need state, then at least the componen...