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...

gem server will boot up documentation on port 8808 by default pass it the -p flag followed by the port number to change. gem server -p3000

Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand. Forum.cate...

Using the system clipboard with tmux on OS X is broken. I really like tmux but having copy and paste is kind of important for me. Here is my attempt to get it back with a simple bash script until I find something better. The approach is to take a named pi...

If you're running Rails in production it will by default be configured to let apache or nginx send files for you. If you're handling file downloads yourself with send_file send_file("path/to/file.txt") you will notice that the downloaded files are empty...