There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get a list but properly handle the full birthday elsewhere, s...

Just for reference strftime() arguments in ruby. Usage `Time.now.strftime("%B/%d/%Y")` %a weekday name. %A weekday name (full). %b month name. %B month name (full). %c date and time (locale) %d day of month [01,31]. %H hour [00,...

There is annoying line wrap issue present after installing iPython on OS X Mavericks for the first time. The issue has to do with readline being missing. To fix the problem uninstall iPython, install readline and then install iPython. pip uninstall ip...

Member.all.collect {|member| member.firstname}.to_sentence => "Alex, Andy, and Sean" Declare separator and the connector Member.all.collect {|member| member.firstname}.to_sentence( :connector => "and last but not least,", :skip_last_comma => tr...

Here are a few snippets for cross database queries. It's important to note that you must be explicit in enumerating the columns and types you are querying. Otherwise, things will probably not work as expected. -- enable extension create extension db...