How to send email with Python, smtplib and Postmark
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...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/12/2017
Rails 3 Config Auto Load Paths in Application.rb
In Rails 3 files in lib/ are no longer loaded by default. It's a snap to auto load these classes by adding the following line to config/application.rb
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)
This is commented out around line 16. Either rep...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Starting the Rails Console in Production Mode
To specify which mode you'd like the rails console to boot up in, just provide the string without any flags.
./script/console production
./script/console test
./script/console development
If you're on windows, remember the backslash "\" rather than for...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Uncompress A Bz2 File Using Tar Command
Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command
tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2
@source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Nested Has_one Relationship with Fields_for and Attr_accessible in Model Class
To make child attributes accessible to your model through a nested forms (Rails 2.3) you'll need to add the "#{child_class}_attributes" to the attr_accessible method in your parent class. If you don't use attr_accessible in your parent model (you would do...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012