The following code will disable SSL verification when using Open SSL. OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE It is probably not a good idea to do this in production. But if you are just testing on your development machine it might...

Take advantage of the named_scope method in your models and make find queries simple and beautiful! #app/models/comment.rb class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :post named_scope :pending, :conditions => ["pending = ?", true] named_scope :...

It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has...

Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so: htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...

MySQL doesn't support having two columns with time stamping on both initialization and/or on updating at the same time. It would be nice to be able to do *this* where the created_at column gets the current_timestamp on initialization and the updated_at ge...