Deploy Sintra App on Ubuntu Using Apache2 and Phusion Passenger Module
Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/
This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Override to_param method in model to get pseudo permalinks without any work
There are a number of permalink plugins for Rails, http://www.seoonrails.com/even-better-looking-urls-with-permalink_fu, is a good one that I've used before. However, this involves informing the model class (has_permalink :title), adding a route, using t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Create Blurry Background Images Programmatically from the Command Line or with Ruby
Turn this
into this
You can use ImageMagick to make blurry images.
To install with Homebrew on OS X.
brew install imagemagick
After installing you can run from the command line
convert yourimage.png -channel RGBA -blu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013
Email Obfuscation and Extraction from Text with Rails
There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails.
mail_to "me@domain.com", "My email", :encode => "hex"
# => My email
If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Convert Array to Object in PHP
function array2obj($data) {
return is_array($data) ? (object) array_map(__FUNCTION__,$data) : $data;
}
Source: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/php/how-to-convert-array-notation-to-object-notation...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
