Setup Wildcard Subdomain on Localhost for Development Work without /Etc/hosts TomFoolery
Step 1.
Open up your browser and visit http://www.hexxie.com. You can also go to anything.hexxie.com and everything.hexxie.com, which will resolve to your local machine (assuming it's localhost at 127.0.0.1).
How it works
Super simple. I just pointed hex...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Color Output with Test:Unit, AutoTest and Ruby 1.9
If you are testing using Test:Unit (rather than RSpec) and you're using Ruby 1.9.* colorized output of your tests using Autotest will not be immediately available. Since, 1.9 comes with mini test the test/unit/ui/console/testrunner.rb script is not loaded...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Disk Usage Information on Mac OS X
Get disk usage information about the Desktop
$ du -h -d 0 Desktop
14G Desktop
Information about how much free space is available on computer
$ df -lh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 111Gi 109Gi 2.3Gi 98% /
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails Select Tag and Onchange Event Calling a Remote Function with Default Option Selected
Here is a little code snippet that will fire off a request to update_client_path when you change the select field. This stands alone, rather than being apart of a larger form. The Client::CATEGORY argument is a hash, which I populated manually in my Clien...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing Ruby on Rails 3, MySQL, Git, Ruby Enterprise Edition, Passenger (Mod_Rails) on Ubuntu with Rackspace Cloud.
Short and sweet. Here all the commands I run in this order to set up a brand new box. It usually takes about 10 - 15 minutes on a 256 MB RAM instance. Compiling Ruby Enterprise Edition, which is super easy, will take the most amount of time. It will seem ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
