It's trivial to export data from a mysql database with Ruby and ActiveRecord. All you have to do is establish a connection and define a class that represents the table. require 'rubygems' require 'active_record' ActiveRecord::Base.establish_con...

Versioning models with the acts_as_versioned plugin cd rails/app ./script/plugin install git://github.com/technoweenie/acts_as_versioned.git ./script/generate model post title:string body:text In your model class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ve...

Git can track the file permissions on your source. This can be good, but for small projects on a webserver where permissions change from time to time, and permissions on development app don't match or matter anyway, it's often easier to just skip this che...

This is how to reshape an array using Python without Numpy. This is a fairly simple task but it can be a little confusing to wrap your head around. I ran into this problem while working with Flask, working with array from form fields. I wanted to us...

Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/ This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...