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
Installing Ruby with RVM without Xcode using CLANG
I am not using the full Xcode package on my laptop. Instead I'm using the command line tools, offered by Apple as a separate and much smaller install. I haven't had too many issues, aside from not being able to use the FileMerge program that ships with ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/24/2012
How to Parse Query Strings in PHP
Here is a quick snippet for parsing query strings in PHP. You can use the `parse_url` and `parse_str` methods. `parse_str` will create a variable for you populated with results.
$url = "http://www.seanbehan.com/path/?param=key";
parse_str(parse_url...
Written by Sean Behan on 12/04/2017
Get Child Categories of Parent Category on Single Post in Wordpress
I was hoping to find a function in the Wordpress API, that goes something like this...
the_child_categories("Vermont");
// print Burlington, Brattleboro... etc if this post has any child categories of Vermont
But I could not. The result that I did ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
A Through Z
How to print the alphabet in Rails very easily.
("A".."Z").each {|letter| link_to letter, "/#{letter"}
"A".upto("Z") {|letter| link_to letter, "/#letter"}
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012