How to Check if Your iOS or MacOS App is Connected to the Internet
Is your app connected to the internet? You can use this standalone class to check! There are no dependencies so you can copy/paste it into your project without needing to install another framework.
With this class it's as simple as running `Reachabili...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/08/2018
Onchange Event Fired from Select Field in Rails Form
In the view there is a regular Rails form and a javascript function that will be triggered when the country select field is changed. The javascript function will make an ajax request to the country_select url with the country code passed as the id variabl...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Change the Default Controller Name in Rails Functional Tests
Rails will infer the controller you want to test from the class name of the test case. For example...
class PeopleControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
end
will test the app/controllers/people_controller.rb.
To change this is trivial. Us...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/23/2013
How to Render Partials with an Underscore in Sinatra
Sinatra doesn't have a method for rendering partials. It defers to the template language of your choice. For instance, if you're using ERB, it's as simple as
erb :'path/to/partial'
Rails has a nice convention of using an underscore to mark file...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/13/2013
How to Get a Random Item from an Array in PHP
Use this snippet for grabbing a random item from an array in php
$fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'carrot', 'date', 'elderberry'];
echo array_rand(array_flip($fruits));
// => 'banana'
PHP's `array_flip` makes the keys the values and the valu...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/10/2017
