Installing Redis Server and Client on Mac OS X and Ubuntu
wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-0.900_2.tar.gz
tar xzvf redis-0.900_2.tar.gz
cd redis-0.900
make
mv redis-server /usr/bin/
mv redis-cli /usr/bin/
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Change database column names for form validations in Rails
When you use validations in Rails, db column names are used as 'keys' for error messages. This is usually the preferred way to go about it because this maps nicely to the form fields. However, if you use a virtual attribute this may not be the case. For e...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Rails 3 Config Auto Load Paths in Application.rb
In Rails 3 files in lib/ are no longer loaded by default. It's a snap to auto load these classes by adding the following line to config/application.rb
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)
This is commented out around line 16. Either rep...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A List of Every High School in the United States in Pipe Delimitted Form (2005)
Here is a text file containing every high school in the United States(2005), including city, state, zip code and high school name.
us_high_schools_pd
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