Sinatra won't reload your files. So if you're developing your app and want to see any changes made in the browser, install the shotgun gem. gem install shotgun You can then use shotgun to run your server shotgun your_sinatra_ditty.rb Presto, your ditt...

You'll have to create a new plugin. From the menu bar select Tools > New Plugin Copy the Python script from the signature.py file. Remember to replace your email address (it's example.com). Save the file, signature.py, is fine. Next open up Prefer...

Parsing for links with the Prototype javascript library is easy. Here is the pattern for finding links /(http|https):\/\/[\w\-_]+(\.[\w\-_]+)+([\w\-\.,@?^ =%&:/~\+#]*[\w\-\@?^=%&/~\+#])?/ And to implement it you can loop through your con...

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. ...

Renaming routes in Rails 2.* is straight forward. It goes something like this. ## config/routes.rb map.resources :users, :as => :members This will give you users_path and form_for(User.new) helpers, for instance, mapping the url to /members instead of ...