Make Rails Lib Module Methods Available to Views
If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Get Your User's SHELL and PATH Information
How to find your user SHELL and PATH on Linux
echo $PATH
echo $SHELL
Which will print the paths to the screen
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
/bin/bash
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
salmon salad at home
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Execute Javascript When Using Link_to_function To Include a Partial in Rails
If you use the link_to_function to replace content in a div with content from a partial, any javascript that you include in the partial will not be executed. It is instead included, but will do nothing. Obviously, this isn't the desired behavior. Why woul...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How Beautiful is Ruby?
Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand.
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012