Change database column names for form validations in Rails
When you use validations in Rails, db column names are used as 'keys' for error messages. This is usually the preferred way to go about it because this maps nicely to the form fields. However, if you use a virtual attribute this may not be the case. For e...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Working with Branches in Git
Show all the branches
git branch
Create a new branch
git branch my_experimental_feature
Use that branch
git checkout my_experimental_feature
Pushing the new branch to a remote server
git push origin my_experimental_feature
Pulling that branch down...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Descending Sort By in Model For Active Record Hash on Created_at attribute
If you have a couple collections from the database and you want to sort it without the help of Active Record, take a look at the sort_by method on Array type. I've used this before when I have a couple of collections which are slightly different but I nee...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Use Python Shutil Make_Archive to Zip Up a Directory Recursively including The Root Folder
The documentation for Python's shutil.make_archive is very confusing. Considering that the arguments to this function only need to be source and destination, makes it even more frustrating to try and reason about.
Here are the relevant docs from the p...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/16/2018