Ruby on Rails, jQuery and YUI API Docs Available as Mac OS X Dictionary Binaries
I came across an awesome tool this morning. Priit Haamer has chunked Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and some of YUI documentation into native Mac OS X dictionary binaries. This lets you search those API docs from Spotlight, TextMate, any application that uses the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Get GPS Location Information from Address String with Swift and iOS CLGeocoder
You can use CLGeocoder geocodeAddressString method. It will return an array of CLPlacemark objects that contain gps coords and city, location info.
let address = "Burlington, Vermont"
CLGeocoder().geocodeAddressString(address, completionHandler...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/11/2018
How to Merge a YAML File Into a Single Hash in Ruby
require 'yaml'
# Nested YAML structure from something-nested.yml
#
# nested:
# key: value
# key_two: value_two
# Procedural Approach to building a single Hash from nested YAML data structure.
@yaml = YAML.load_file("something-nested...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Extract all Images from a Webpage with Ruby
Here is a little ruby snippet that will download all pictures from a webpage.
Rather than using XPath, we are going to first reduce the source code to capture everything inside of quotes. Some websites use JSON w/in a script tag to lazy load images an...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/01/2018
Rails 3 disable_with Does Not Work with Ajax Remote Form_for
It appears that the :disable_with option on the submit_tag form helper method does not behave as expected with remote forms. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. But the fix is pretty straight forward, but perhaps a little difficult to trouble shoot. Usi...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
