There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails. mail_to "me@domain.com", "My email", :encode => "hex" # => My email If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the...

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'

import pickle entity = { "user_id": "1", "title": "Natural Dog Training", "link": "http://naturaldogtraining.com", } pickled_entity = pickle.dumps(entity) unpickled_entity = pickle.loads(pickled_entity)

If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...

Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course. There are great resources and tutorials at these websites. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...