Ruby Debugger Primer
Very quick rdebug primer for using the debugger in Mongrel. <h1>Setting Up your Environment for Debugging</h1> gem install ruby-debug If you're in textmate go to...
Singular or Plural in Rails
Quick cheet-sheet to help you remember when to type a singular entity or a plural. (more…)
Firefox plug-ins I use
Web Developer -- adds a robust set of tools to peek under the hood. Adds a toolbar to your windows to let you do things...
Boolean OR operators evaluate left to right, and stops evaluating once it finds something that is true.
All programming languages work this way, but still it is nice to remember that Ruby does this. >> n = nil => nil >> x...
Coercion operations affect which order you might evaluate variables in
In trying to write code to give me the full name of "next" month (in my case, November, as today is October 6), I just...
Configure git so that it shows green & red in my terminal
Create a file in your home directory here: ~/.gitconfig (The dot makes it invisible of course) In this file, you can configure lots of git...
Object Equality & States in Ruby
A good area to spend some time for someone new to Ruby is to understand about objects. This serves as a basic wrap-around over view...
CSS Symbols
Symbols used in CSS symbolnamewhat fornotes .dot (period)denotes class value #pounddenotes id value *staruniversal selector spacedescendant selector ,commagroup selector :colonused for pseudo-classesonly :hover and :active...
Pattern Matching Function (Ruby)
def hilite_search_criteria(pattern, search_criteria) return if pattern.nil? or search_criteria.nil? pattern.gsub!(/(]*>)|\n|\t/s) {" "} match_char = pattern =~ /#{search_criteria}/i matched_string = $~.to_s return if match_char.nil? start = match_char...