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Hacking Rails Plugins
Using the Acts as Taggable On plugin to add categories to a model class, I wanted to override the to_param method and place the name attribute in the url. The plugin, installed as a gem, source shouldn't need to be hacked in order to accomplish this. The ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Problem slash Bug in Rails with attr_accessor and Datetime Select Fields
Looks like there is a problem with using the attr_accessor method with datetime form fields http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8983 In Rails 2.3.2, for me at least, the problem seems to be popping up again. While trying to process a date for credit card v...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Very Simple Breadcrumb Navigation in Rails with Before_filter
This may not be the ideal solution. This just manages request.referers in a session variable, then looping over each unique path prints a link to the screen. It's more of a "history" than a hierarchy for resources in an application. It is however, pretty ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Apache Rewrite Rule for Mapping to index.php in Sub Folders
Below is an example URL structure with rewrite rules using an Apache .htaccess file. GET /a/ => a/index.php GET /a/b/ => a/b/index.php GET /a/b/c/ => a/b/index.php This URL mapping will give you pretty URLs in PHP without needing t...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/20/2017
Rails Migrations and Auto Incrementing Migration Prefix Number
In your environment.rb file turn off timestamped migrations like so: config.active_record.timestamped_migrations = false
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012