How to Render Partials with an Underscore in Sinatra
Sinatra doesn't have a method for rendering partials. It defers to the template language of your choice. For instance, if you're using ERB, it's as simple as
erb :'path/to/partial'
Rails has a nice convention of using an underscore to mark file...
Written by Sean Behan on 10/13/2013
Install do_mysql Ruby Gem on Mac OS X
I ran into the same problem when installing mysql gem for Rails development. This fix worked for me http://seanbehan.com/programming/fixing-mysql-for-rails-2-2-development-on-mac-os-x/
The same thing works with the data objects gem. Just specify the path...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
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
Using Your Partials in Your Liquid Templates
I'm working on a project that requires users/designers be allowed to edit the layout of their site. I'm using Liquid, Ruby templating system developed by the folks at shopify.com.
Doing a little searching I found this great post http://giantrobots.though...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A Regular Expression to Generate Dash Separated Slugs AKA Pretty URLs
This regular expression matches non alphanumeric characters in a string.
r = /[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i
You can use it to create URL friendly slugs.
slug = "hello world!".gsub(/[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i, '-').downcase # => hello-world
In combination wit...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
