With namespace routes in Rails you can easily create a prefix for select resources. For instance, if you have an admin area or an account dashboard you can give logged in users access to methods that are not otherwise available. To use namespaces define t...

There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get a list but properly handle the full birthday elsewhere, s...

You might use the attr_accessible method to create getters and setters for a class that has attributes which don't map directly to corresponding fields in a database. For example let's take the scenario where you are processing a credit card transaction. ...

Here are a few snippets for cross database queries. It's important to note that you must be explicit in enumerating the columns and types you are querying. Otherwise, things will probably not work as expected. -- enable extension create extension db...

To import a CSV file into SQLite is easy. sqlite3 my.db .mode csv .import path/to/file.csv name_of_table And done.