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
Rails: Expiring a cached page with namespaces and sweepers
I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Accessing Links in Nested TD Cells with Prototype
There must be a better way to do the following with PrototypeJS. I want to loop over nested links inside of table td cells and apply a class to the row that the link is in when the link is clicked. If a user clicks on another link the class will be remov...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Extract Domain Names From Links in Text with Postgres and a Single SQL Query
This query and pattern will return urls in text all within a single SQL query.
select substring(column_name from '.*://([^/]*)') as domain_name from table_name;
And here it is in a larger query, say for retrieving page view counts for referrers.
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Written by Sean Behan on 11/23/2013
Ruby strftime() method arguments
Just for reference strftime() arguments in ruby.
Usage `Time.now.strftime("%B/%d/%Y")`
%a weekday name.
%A weekday name (full).
%b month name.
%B month name (full).
%c date and time (locale)
%d day of month [01,31].
%H hour [00,...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/05/2017