Use a Cron Job to Automate Sphinx Index Refresh from Rails Rake Task
If using Sphinx, you need to refresh indexes when you add new content to your database. This is fairly easy to do by hand
rake thinking_sphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
But if you want to automate this and use a cron, remember to set the PATH, SHELL an...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Active Admin Rails 5 undefined method per_page_kaminari
If you run into this error in development, using Rails 5 and Active Admin
NoMethodError - undefined method `per_page_kaminari'
Try the following.
First, make sure you have an initializer in your application.
# in config/initializers/kamina...
Written by Sean Behan on 04/27/2017
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Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Make Cross Database Queries with Postgres and DBLink Extension
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...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/18/2017
Make Rails Lib Module Methods Available to Views
If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
