class Bar(): def __init__(self, **args): for key in args: self.__dict__[key] = args[key] b = Bar(fullname="Monty Python", email="me@monthpython.org") b.fullname #=> Monty Python b.email #=>me@montypython.org

Problem: using git and one file, like your db/schema.rb, is out of whack with the latest branch. If you run git pull and you get a failed merge and no update. You can of course, edit the conflicts manually. But what if you're confident that the latest sch...

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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...

If you run into problems using ActionMailer > 2.2, Postfix and OpenSSL while sending mail from your application, try changing the following: vim /etc/postfix/main.cf Change smtpd_use_tls=yes to smtpd_use_tls=no OpenSSL support with Postfix does ...