How To Export A MySQL Database to JSON, CSV and XML with Ruby and the ActiveRecord Gem
It's trivial to export data from a mysql database with Ruby and ActiveRecord. All you have to do is establish a connection and define a class that represents the table.
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_con...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/23/2012
Build Your Own Calendar in Rails without any Plugins in less than 10 lines of Ruby Code
There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar.
The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Cool Conditional Syntax in Ruby (on Rails)
Ruby is beautiful
@posts =
if true
Post.all
else
[]
end
Simply elegant!
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Workshop Dog
Workshop Dog is a free events calendar for dog training workshops and group lessons.
Users can list their training workshops as well as create a business profile. Jobs may be posted to the site for a small fee. Events that are created are distributed to...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Find the Directory Locations Your XCode App Uses
You can add this snippet to your application, say for instance in your `viewDidLoad` function, that will print to the XCode console, the location of your app while it's being developed.
// prints the location of asset my-added-file.txt that you've ad...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/06/2018