While writing software it's common to leave comments for your future self. For instance, if you have written some code but realize that it should be refactored to be more efficient, you may place something along the lines of "TODO: change active record fi...

Here is a simple rake task which will instantiate all of your Active Record models, provided that they are located in the RAILS_ROOT/app/models directory. Interestingly, all plugin models are instantiated by default when you run the task, for instance, if...

Working with Ruby and in particular Rails, it's easy to take the beauty inherent in the language for granted. I mean look at this code. If you read it aloud to yourself, it reads like an english sentence that any non programmer can understand. Forum.cate...

Remember to include the host declaration in the database.yml file when you deploy to Dreamhost. Dreamhost does not use "localhost" which is typically the default setting when using the mysql adapter and developing locally or even on a small site. At lea...

It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has...

After an hour of fruitless searching through the docs and forums, I finally found an answer to my simple question, of course buried in the depths of the shark infested, murky water that is the Moodle code base . How do I check if a user is a course creat...

Arguably the most important function in the Moodle API, is the create_course function. One would think... after all Moodle is an LMS. Courses are the bread and butter for course management platforms, right? Taking a look at the function in the course/lib....

In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge! zip -r my-compressed-dir-without-psd.zip directory-to-zip -x '*.psd'

Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2 @source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html...

function array2obj($data) { return is_array($data) ? (object) array_map(__FUNCTION__,$data) : $data; } Source: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/php/how-to-convert-array-notation-to-object-notation...