Installing and Using Rvm on Mac OS X, Creating Gemsets and Reverting to Original Environment
What is RVM and why should you use it? RVM is a Ruby interpreter, version management tool. In short, it enables you to switch between different versions and releases of Ruby (for instance, version 1.8.6, 1.8.7, jruby 1.9.2, ruby enterprise edition) on the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Deploying Wordpress on Heroku
> This post is out of date - Heroku officially supports PHP now w/ buildpacks
Heroku runs
Apache version 2.2.22
PHP version 5.3.10
Deploying Wordpress to Heroku requires that you throw the Wordpress source into a Git repository. So download th...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/02/2017
Validate Uniqueness on Join Tables in Rails
How to validate uniqueness in a :has_many :through relationship with Ruby on Rails. You'll need three models in this example List, Subscriber and ListSubscriber. A list has many subscribers and a subscriber has many lists. Simple enough. Running the follo...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Regex for Extracting URLs in Plain Text
Here is a Regex for extracting URLs from text. However, these links will not already be hyperlinked or source attribtues from images or iframes.
This example is in PHP. I was trying to format a Wordpress page to auto hyperlink but preserve embeded ima...
Written by Sean Behan on 04/14/2017
Apache Rewrite Rule for Mapping to index.php in Sub Folders
Below is an example URL structure with rewrite rules using an Apache .htaccess file.
GET /a/ => a/index.php
GET /a/b/ => a/b/index.php
GET /a/b/c/ => a/b/index.php
This URL mapping will give you pretty URLs in PHP without needing t...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/20/2017
