Rails, SSL, Ubuntu, Apache2 with Phusion on Ubuntu
Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course.
There are great resources and tutorials at these websites.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Export A MySQL Database to JSON, CSV and XML with Ruby and the ActiveRecord Gem
It's trivial to export data from a mysql database with Ruby and ActiveRecord. All you have to do is establish a connection and define a class that represents the table.
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_con...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/23/2012
Use a Cron Job to Automate Sphinx Index Refresh from Rails Rake Task
If using Sphinx, you need to refresh indexes when you add new content to your database. This is fairly easy to do by hand
rake thinking_sphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
But if you want to automate this and use a cron, remember to set the PATH, SHELL an...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
TinyMCE Rich Text Editor: HELLO EDITOR Plugin Tutorial and Example
I wanted to create a button for the TinyMCE Rich Text Editor for Wordpress. It was tough to find good docs on the subject. There are a couple of useful posts out there but in general I found them lacking.
http://codex.wordpress.org/TinyMCE_Custom_Buttons...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Git Untrack Already Tracked Files
To remove files that are currently being tracked by git, you have to remove them from the "cache". Note, doing this will NOT delete the file on your local machine. It will still be there but not be tracked.
git rm -r --cached supersecretpasswords.txt
Yo...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
