If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...

Below is an example URL structure with rewrite rules using an Apache .htaccess file. GET /a/ => a/index.php GET /a/b/ => a/b/index.php GET /a/b/c/ => a/b/index.php This URL mapping will give you pretty URLs in PHP without needing t...

Sinatra won't reload your files. So if you're developing your app and want to see any changes made in the browser, install the shotgun gem. gem install shotgun You can then use shotgun to run your server shotgun your_sinatra_ditty.rb Presto, your ditt...

There are a few 3rd party modules that do this sort of thing. But there is a pretty solution using out of the box Python functionality. You don't have to install any dependencies if you use the `re` module. import re text = ' asdfladf ljklasfj 2324...

I love the Rails reload! function when in the console. I need it in Irb. To get it back this is what I did. If you don't already have an .irbrc file in your home directory, just create it. vim ~/.irbrc or textmate if you prefer mate ~/.irbrc Add this...