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
I Just Published My First PHP Package HTMLXPATH
I just wrote and published my first PHP package on Packagist.com. It's available on [packagist.org](https://packagist.org/packages/htmlxpath/htmlxpath) and the source code is on [github](https://github.com/seanbehan/htmlxpath).
To install the package u...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/28/2017
Renaming Routes in Rails 3 with :As and :Controller
Renaming routes in Rails 2.* is straight forward. It goes something like this.
## config/routes.rb
map.resources :users, :as => :members
This will give you users_path and form_for(User.new) helpers, for instance, mapping the url to /members instead of ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Listing Files and Directories with PHP
Listing all files and directories using PHP 5.
<?php
$files = array(); $dir = dir(".");
while(false!==($file=$dir->read())):
if(($file{0}!=".") && ($file{0}!="~") && (substr($file, -3)!="LCK")
&& ($file!=basename($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))):
...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing Scala on Mac OS X Leopard
I followed the instructions from here http://arvinderkang.com/2009/09/01/installing-scala-on-snow-leopard/ but I used version 2.7.6 (rather than .5) I installed scala under /usr/local/scala so I had to include it to my path. Type
vim .bash_profile
expor...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
