My First Ruby Gem: Hashed_Attributes
I just wrote and released my first Ruby Gem, Hashed Attributes https://rubygems.org/gems/hashed_attributes. It is a very simple ActiveRecord extension for saving variables through a serialized hash. The Gem will let you declare getter and setter methods t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Repost
This post is inspired by
http://pupeno.com/blog/really-resetting-the-database/#comment-1179. But as my blog mostly serves as a reference for my future self, I'd like to reprint this little snippet of code here as well.
namespace :db do
desc "Crush a...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
rails fixtures: using the right timestamp
Fixtures in Rails allow you to quickly and easily populate a database with sample data. They are great when testing your app and you need to test against a condition that will rely on a certain preexisting data point.
Fixtures are located in your RAILS_R...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
SHA1 or MD5 Hashing in Python
import hashlib
print hashlib.sha1("My wonderful string").hexdigest()
print hashlib.md5("My other wonderful string").hexdigest()
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Output Logger and SQL to the Rails Console in Development Mode
If you want to take a look at the SQL being generated by active record while your using the console, you can either type this into the console when it loads
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Or you can add it to your environment so that it'...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012