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...

Here is the snippet f path/to/directory 'search string' | open_in_mate This snippet (technically 2 snippets) will recursively scan the contents of files in a directory and then open all the files it finds in Textmate. It's useful on large projec...

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...

If you use the link_to_function to replace content in a div with content from a partial, any javascript that you include in the partial will not be executed. It is instead included, but will do nothing. Obviously, this isn't the desired behavior. Why woul...

If you want to insert a datetime that matches the default mysql datetime type format use this date('Y-m-d H:i:s');