Rails, SSL, Ubuntu, Apache2 with Phusion on Ubuntu
Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course.
There are great resources and tutorials at these websites.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/se...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Git Feature Branch Naming Strategy
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
-- Phil Karlton
Typically, we have three main branches at any given time in a project lifecycle.
master, development and staging.
Master is production ready code, d...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Slugify a String in PHP
Here is a snippet for generating a URL friendly slug in PHP
function slugify($string){
return strtolower(trim(preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-]+/', '-', $string), '-'));
}
And you can use it in your code like so
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Written by Sean Behan on 10/26/2017
Managing Timestamps in MySQL with a Trigger
MySQL doesn't support having two columns with time stamping on both initialization and/or on updating at the same time. It would be nice to be able to do *this* where the created_at column gets the current_timestamp on initialization and the updated_at ge...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Enable UUIDs in Postgres
The first thing you'll need to do is enable the extension
create extension "uuid-ossp";
To test that it's working
select uuid_generate_v1();
For more info on which version of the algorithm you should use refer to the documentation.
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Written by Sean Behan on 03/03/2017
