using screen
Use screen when you want to manage multiple sessions in a terminal. Install it on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install screen
There are a lot of options for screen. I won't go into them. I use screen most often when I shell into a remote server and want to hop i...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Ruby on Rails vs. PHP in a Nutshell
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EIrSM8dCA[/youtube]
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Nesting Resources in Rails Routes.Rb with Namespaces
When I have a controller that takes more than one has_many argument, I think about creating a namespace. This way I may still use my forums, pages controllers w/out needing any conditional logic, testing for the presence of :course_id in the params hash.
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Gem Information with Gem List
If you want to get version information about a gem the easiest way to do it is with this command
gem list
For example
gem list activemerchant
will output the activemerchant versions I have installed. You can pass only part of the name like
gem list ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Calculate Age with PHP
Calculate age in PHP
$your_birthday = '1982-08-29';
$difference = date_diff(date_create(), date_create($your_birthday));
$age = $difference->format('%Y');
// 35
Short and sweet
Written by Sean Behan on 11/11/2017