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Simple String Concatenation of a Collection Written as a Helper for Rails
At Railsconf last week I took Greg Pollack's online course Rails Best Practices. The interface is gorgeous and the instructions are excellent. One of the lessons involved taking a partial and moving it into a helper. I was reminded how difficult such a si...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
The Best Video About How to Make Money Online
This is one of my favorite videos on the internet. It is what got me interested in Rails and made me work toward the goal of running my own business and hopefully soon, launch my own products. ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/25/2012
Protect a Directory with Apache, .htaccess and httpasswd
Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so: htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Open Files in TextMate 2 with A Single Click
To open files with a single click from the file browser inside of TextMate 2 run this command from the terminal defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview fileBrowserSingleClickToOpen -bool true And to turn it off defaults write com.macro...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/04/2013
PHP Headers for Sending CSV File Downloads
If you would like to force a file download prompt to the user, instead of just outputting the text to the browser, use the following headers. ...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/25/2017