Rails Style Params in Python and Flask
Ruby on Rails does a great job of parsing arrays in form data and populating a params hash, for quick and easy access in your controllers.
For instance
Gives you
params[:item] # => ["item 1", "item 2"]
Flask doesn't do this work f...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2018
Yield a Block within Rails Helper Method with Multiple Content_tags Using Concat
To clean up some repetitive html coding in views, pass a block of text to a helper function which will wrap it for you the same way, each and every time. For example, I have a 'help' link which will toggle the display of a block of text if a link is click...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Deploy Sintra App on Ubuntu Using Apache2 and Phusion Passenger Module
Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/
This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Deploying Wordpress on Heroku
> This post is out of date - Heroku officially supports PHP now w/ buildpacks
Heroku runs
Apache version 2.2.22
PHP version 5.3.10
Deploying Wordpress to Heroku requires that you throw the Wordpress source into a Git repository. So download th...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
How to Install Ferret, the Full Text Search Engine with Your Rails Application
Ferret is a full text search engine based on the popular Lucene Engine, which is originally written for Java. There is a great tutorial available here: http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial
Assuming you have the plugin installed, act...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
