Descending Sort By in Model For Active Record Hash on Created_at attribute
If you have a couple collections from the database and you want to sort it without the help of Active Record, take a look at the sort_by method on Array type. I've used this before when I have a couple of collections which are slightly different but I nee...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Log and Query SQL Queries Hitting Your Database with MySQL
Here is some code just in case you want to look at and query the queries hitting your MySQL database.
Enter this from the mysql client console.
mysql> SET GLOBAL log_output = 'TABLE'
mysql> SET GLOBAL general_log = 'ON';
mysql> select event_ti...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/17/2018
How to Get Your User's SHELL and PATH Information
How to find your user SHELL and PATH on Linux
echo $PATH
echo $SHELL
Which will print the paths to the screen
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
/bin/bash
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Installing Monk on Ubuntu with Ruby Gems
Installing monk like this will fail
gem install monk
You'll need to install the wycats-thor gem first with this command
gem install wycats-thor -s http://gems.github.com
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Trigrams, Bigrams and Ngrams in Python for Text Analysis
Creating trigrams in Python is very simple
trigrams = lambda a: zip(a, a[1:], a[2:])
trigrams(('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'))
# => [('a', 'b', 'c'), ('b', 'c', 'd'), ('c', 'd', 'e'), ('d', 'e', 'f')]
You can generalize this a little bit more
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/06/2017