Absolutize Relative Links Using PHP and Preg_Replace_Callback
I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable.
<?php
$domain =...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Destructuring Dictionaries in Python
Here is a quick and dirty way to destructure dictionaries in [Python]
d = {'a':'Apple', 'b':'Banana','c':'Carrot'}
a,b,c = [d[k] for k in ('a', 'b','c')]
a == 'Apple'
b == 'Banana'
c == 'Carrot'
Written by Sean Behan on 03/04/2017
How To Pipe To A Ruby Command Line Application
You need to read from STDIN rather than parse command line arguments.
while $stdin.gets
puts $_
end
Written by Sean Behan on 10/17/2013
How To Add A Route With A Forward Slash in Params with Rails 3 Application
Use an asterisk in the pattern to match for everything after it. In the example below, date will be available in the params hash as params[:date].
SPB::Application.routes.draw do
# http://example.com/calendar/2007/10
# params[:date] => "2007/1...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/22/2012
Installing RedMine PM Software on Apache with Phusion and REE and Seeing a 404 Page Not Found Error on Installation
If you follow the instructions on how to install the Rails Redmine PM Software (available here) and are using Apache with Passenger (REE), you need to delete the .htaccess file that is kept in RAILS_ROOT/public directory. Otherwise you'll see a 404 page n...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
