Manage Fixtures with Yaml DB Plugin for Rails
Get the plugin like so...
script/plugin install git://github.com/adamwiggins/yaml_db.git
This command will dump your data
rake db:data:dump
And load it back
rake db:data:load
Beautiful :) More info here
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2007/11/23/yam...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How To Write Your Own Time Comparison Function in Ruby Like time_ago_in_words Without Rails
# time_ago_in_words(Time.now, 1.day.ago) # => 1 day
# time_ago_in_words(Time.now, 1.hour.ago) # => 1 hour
def time_ago_in_words(t1, t2)
s = t1.to_i - t2.to_i # distance between t1 and t2 in seconds
resolution = if s > 29030400 # seco...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/17/2013
Fixing MySQL for Rails 2.2 Development on Mac OS X
Oh what trouble Rails 2.2 and MySQL (on Mac OS X) can be. Rails, as of version >= 2.2, no longer comes bundled with the MySQL adapter. This means you'll need to install it yourself, but it appears that the gem for installing it is also broken.
This will ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Import/Export a Database from One Heroku App to Another Heroku App
Heroku is awesome! Let's say we want to copy a production database to a staging database.
We can use the `pg:backups:restore` command to accomplish this. Here is an example. For the source database we are using the `production-app-name` and for stagi...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/07/2017
How to Merge a YAML File Into a Single Hash in Ruby
require 'yaml'
# Nested YAML structure from something-nested.yml
#
# nested:
# key: value
# key_two: value_two
# Procedural Approach to building a single Hash from nested YAML data structure.
@yaml = YAML.load_file("something-nested...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
