Rails Plugin Acts as Taggable on Steriods
You can download it here http://github.com/suitmymind/acts-as-taggable-on-steroids as well as read usage info (which is for the most part reprinted here).
./script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Why are PHP5 Namespaces Defined Using a Backslash?
Why are PHP namespaces defined using a backslash? It looks ugly. Unless of course, there is a good reason for the "\"? Does this namespaced code run more efficiently on Windows?
Since namespaces are new in PHP5 why not take the opportunity to use them wh...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Fix ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError with Sinatra
If you get this error message
ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError could not obtain a database connection within 5.000 seconds (waited 5.001 seconds)
Try closing the connection after each request using "after" in Sintara.
# app.rb
after { A...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/09/2013
Email Regex
Regular Expression that Matches Email Addresses:
/\b[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\b/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A Regular Expression to Generate Dash Separated Slugs AKA Pretty URLs
This regular expression matches non alphanumeric characters in a string.
r = /[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i
You can use it to create URL friendly slugs.
slug = "hello world!".gsub(/[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i, '-').downcase # => hello-world
In combination wit...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013