Validate Uniqueness on Join Tables in Rails
How to validate uniqueness in a :has_many :through relationship with Ruby on Rails. You'll need three models in this example List, Subscriber and ListSubscriber. A list has many subscribers and a subscriber has many lists. Simple enough. Running the follo...
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
Very Simple Breadcrumb Navigation in Rails with Before_filter
This may not be the ideal solution. This just manages request.referers in a session variable, then looping over each unique path prints a link to the screen. It's more of a "history" than a hierarchy for resources in an application. It is however, pretty ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Check if Your iOS or MacOS App is Connected to the Internet
Is your app connected to the internet? You can use this standalone class to check! There are no dependencies so you can copy/paste it into your project without needing to install another framework.
With this class it's as simple as running `Reachabili...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/08/2018
Super Simple Router for React Without Any Dependencies
Here is some very simple code to render React components dynamically without using a framework or routing library.
It doesn't cover pushState and URL parsing, so in that sense it isn't a routing library. But it does let you render components from othe...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/16/2018