It's trivial to export data from a mysql database with Ruby and ActiveRecord. All you have to do is establish a connection and define a class that represents the table. require 'rubygems' require 'active_record' ActiveRecord::Base.establish_con...

If you would like to force a file download prompt to the user, instead of just outputting the text to the browser, use the following headers. ...

This may not be the ideal solution. This just manages request.referers in a session variable, then looping over each unique path prints a link to the screen. It's more of a "history" than a hierarchy for resources in an application. It is however, pretty ...

Using the Acts as Taggable On plugin to add categories to a model class, I wanted to override the to_param method and place the name attribute in the url. The plugin, installed as a gem, source shouldn't need to be hacked in order to accomplish this. The ...

You can use string interpolation in combination with a dictionary for simple formatting. print "My name is %(name)s and I have $%(change)0.2f in change in my pocket!" % { 'name': 'Sean', 'change': 00.23 } # My name is Sean and I have $0.23 in chang...