How to Resolve ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for Error in MySQL
If you run into this error when trying to create a user in mysql, chances are you already have this user account created.
create user 'someuser'@'localhost' identified by 'somepassword';
ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for 'someuser...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
Output Logger and SQL to the Rails Console in Development Mode
If you want to take a look at the SQL being generated by active record while your using the console, you can either type this into the console when it loads
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Or you can add it to your environment so that it'...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rake DB Everything, Dump, Destroy, Create, Load
I'm a big fan of the yaml_db plugin. But I don't like running rake db:data:load, only to find that my db columns mismatch my model attributes, thus aborting the data import task. To quickly add/remove columns/attributes from a model and rebuild the datab...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Send Mail in Ruby with a Pony
Great little gem that let's you quickly and easily send out mail from your ruby scripts.
gem install pony
require 'rubygems'
require 'pony'
Pony.mail :from=>"me@example.com", :to=>"you@example.com", :subject=>"hello", :body=>"world"
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A Through Z
How to print the alphabet in Rails very easily.
("A".."Z").each {|letter| link_to letter, "/#{letter"}
"A".upto("Z") {|letter| link_to letter, "/#letter"}
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
