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...

Given a collection of Active Record objects, you may use the collection_select helper method to produce a select form field. You need to pass in a number of arguments to the helper function. 1) object - your model object used in the collection 2) method ...

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...

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User.find :all, :select => "DISTINCT occupation"

Here is a text file containing every high school in the United States(2005), including city, state, zip code and high school name. us_high_schools_pd

In the Wordpress editor (html mode) you'll need to become friends with < and > if you plan on showing any code (php, html... xml, most languages actually) that readers will want to understand. I never thought about it, but assumed that the lt and...

There are many ways to tackle the Facebook style activity stream feature for your app. The simplest approach, which you can tack on at almost any moment, is what I'll describe here. You don't have to create a new model for news feed items or create any po...

There are a few things that need to be taken care of before you can get this to work. The first thing (although, any of the following steps can be done in any order) to take care of involves your User model. You need to override the to_param method, so th...

Forms can easily get cluttered when you're dealing with a lot of form fields... er, ERB tags. I've written about extending Rails form builders, which certainly goes along way to shrinking your views where forms are used. The plugin Formtastic is even bett...