Installing Monk on Ubuntu with Ruby Gems
Installing monk like this will fail
gem install monk
You'll need to install the wycats-thor gem first with this command
gem install wycats-thor -s http://gems.github.com
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Get Your User's SHELL and PATH Information
How to find your user SHELL and PATH on Linux
echo $PATH
echo $SHELL
Which will print the paths to the screen
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
/bin/bash
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Override to_param method in model to get pseudo permalinks without any work
There are a number of permalink plugins for Rails, http://www.seoonrails.com/even-better-looking-urls-with-permalink_fu, is a good one that I've used before. However, this involves informing the model class (has_permalink :title), adding a route, using t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Using Selenium to Drive Firefox Browser for Web Automation
There are a lot of practical uses for automating user behavior in a browser. Everything from testing your web application to logging into Twitter and auto following people.
But first you have to install the tools. Here is everything you need to run yo...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/09/2017
Install Rmagick on Ubuntu with MagickWand
apt-get install librmagick-ruby1.8
apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
gem install rmagick
The last command will spit out a bunch of "No definition" comments. There are no rdocs available and this is why.
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012