Using Paperclip to save the width and height of the attachemnt
When using Paperclip to save an attached image, how do I get & store the dimensions of the image? Best…
CSS Positioning
CSS Positioning cheet-sheet. You actually need quite a bit of understanding of CSS to find this useful. I recommend David Sawyer…
Kill IE 6
OK, so I feel it is officially time to kill IE 6 and below. IE 6 has been the bane…
Text overflowing
Some experimentation with the text-overflow property. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”><html> <body><div style=”border: 1px solid red; max-width: 400px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:…
Two columns, one stretches with the window the other doesn’t
A little CSS pattern to demonstrate what to do when you want one column to stay at a fixed width…
Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; “super called outside of method”
I discovered an interesting difference between two patch levels of the same Ruby (1.8.7) def index respond_to do |format| format.html…
I want my @current_user in my model: A Lesson in Abstraction
This method was adapted from this blog post. So, you are creating a thing (record) or maybe you are updating…
Public, Private, Protected
Quick demonstration of public, private, and protected methods.
Reading a file in Ruby
Reads a file line by line into an array my_stuff my_stuff = [] file = File.new(“config/random_categories.txt”, “r”) while (line =…
How do I set the rails environment (RAILS_ENV)?
Note that when setting the Rails environment you have to pass it differently in different cases. For rake, set RAILS_ENV=…