There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar. The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...

Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand. Forum.cate...

To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...

Here is the one liner. ls -lhtTr It will output something like total 24152 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:42 2019 4c2caf52cb084ea39a6a65a0e68ee382 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sean staff 1.0M May 4 14:31:44 2019 76eeeea5d...

Use the split command. split -l 1000 name-of-file output/directory You can set the number of lines (the "-l" flag) to split on and also the location of where the split files should be saved. Note, the output directory must already exists....