Here is the Akismet.rb class, written by David Czarnecki. I've seen several tutorials online using this class, however, the class isn't available at David's blog. So... I reposted it here and at the pastie link below http://pastie.org/1150693 ...

What is RVM and why should you use it? RVM is a Ruby interpreter, version management tool. In short, it enables you to switch between different versions and releases of Ruby (for instance, version 1.8.6, 1.8.7, jruby 1.9.2, ruby enterprise edition) on the...

If you want to time how long a piped bash command take, use the `time` command followed by your commands in parens like so.. time (ls -lha | wc -l)

I can't find a strftime() format that will output the hour without the leading zero. For instance 6:20 will be instead 06:20. This just looks a little sloppy. I created a datetime.rb intializer which will contain custom datetime formats for my applicatio...

Here is a quick code snippet showing how to send email via SMTP with Postmark without any dependencies. It assumes you are using Heroku and have added the addon. But if not just make sure your api keys are set as environment vars. from os import envir...