On your local machine cd into the .ssh directory in your home "~/" directory. If it doesn't exist you can create it with "mkdir ~/.ssh". Next generate your public/private keys and copy the public key to the remote server. cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen ...

Alias an attribute with alias_attribute method. The first argument is the name for the new attribute, while the second argument is to identify the attribute that is already defined. class User < ActiveRecord::Base alias_attribute :username, :login ...

It's short and sweet! du -hs * If you run this command it will tell you the sizes of all the files and folder in the current directory. The `-h` flag is for human readable format and the `-s` will give you the size for each file or directory. ...

Super simple to get double click "desktop" like functionality out of Prototype! For some reason, googling it doesn't yield many useful results. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=double+click+in+prototype+javascript&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=peEfEjG9pWY :( Anyway, he...

I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...