First figure out which theme you are using. List installed themes via:
% pelican-themes -l
simple
notmyidea
pelicanconf.py does not …
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Pelican Site add Tags and Categories list
I think it improves website usability when they are navigatable via the URL.
For example when viewing Posts under the …
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Python Regular Expressions Quick Guide:
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Node Red vs Home Assistant
Which is better* ?
*better: CPU/RAM efficient, easier to learn and or offer better support …
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With Proxmox installed time to setup Plex in a container, and migrate from Synology NAS.
I am following these guides …
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To improve the Plex transcoding options and off load the computation from the NAS, the plan is purchase a BeeLink …
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Cat 8 Wiring, comes in 2 variants T-568A and T-568B.
Cat8 replaces the need for crimping tools with field termination …
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When a Synology NAS creates a VPN connection it overides the default gateway, except for devices listed as contained within …
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When TeX/LaTeX is fully justifying text there are times when it could do better but it does not know …
read moreTeX Paragraph Box
parboxis a LaTeX command used to place a box around text.Remeber that optional arguments are in [] (Square brackets …
read moreLaTeX macros
LaTeX macros can be used as simple text replacments for example:
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WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX lyx, and a manager for Bibliography JabRef.
Lyx Tutorial: Lyx mac Guide
JabRef Tutorial: Getting Started …
read morePyhton_virtual_env
Creating/Setup a pyhton virtual enviroment called 'venv'
python3 -m venv venvLoad the virtual env called venv
read moresource venv …Convolution in Python
Convolution in Python, for merging filter responses, creating pascals triangle ...
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Perforce can temporarily checkins of changes that you might want to share with others before fully commiting them to the …
read morePython merge PDFs
Using python script to merge pdfs together.
Install package
pip install pypdfScript:
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read more"Home Directory File Structure"
Apples default directory structure is :
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read more"OS X disable back gesture"
After accidentally scrolling back a page when browsing the web in chrome too many times. Figured out how to disable …
read more"Vim: Macro"
When
read more.just will not do (repeats last action) because you need to capture a movement as well, macros are quick …"Find your ruby gems path"
"tcsh Remove trailing /"
read more1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
#!/bin/tcsh set var = "helloworld/" ## http://dbaspot.com/shell/350417-sed-removing-trailing.html set …"Command line bulk file rename"
To prepend to to filenames
cd to_folder ls | xargs -I {} mv {} addthis-{}or target jpgs
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Just realised there is a difference between word and WORD in Vim.
WORD is non-blank delimited by whitespace. word is …
read more"List files ignored by git"
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I just discovered the
read morexkillcommand, when a window has crashed you can call xkill and get a skull and …"error: storage class specified for parameter"
error: storage class specified for parameterThere is probably a missing semicolon
read more;in a header file! Just written my first …"Shell redirection"
To redirect stdout and stderr in bash we use:
./ShellFile.sh &> test.logHowever in tcsh that results in:
read moreInvalid …"Octopress categories with different styles"
As I use the code blocks for ingredient lists on my recipe pages I wanted to have a different style …
read more"Licence Types and Short Identifiers"
"Ruby Methods and Splat"
Ruby methods can set default values for optional arguments:
def commit(path=Dir.pwd)To take an optional number of …
read more"Thor Adding --verbose"
With a command line Ruby application using Thor for the option parsing I want to be able to run:
read more$ thor_app …"iTerm Exit Fullscreen"
"Fixing Mangled Octopress Tags"
When creating my blog I have been inconsistent with the tag
read morecommand line,Command lineandCommand Linethe case …"Thor Variable Arguments"
"Ruby Print Array"
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Enter copy mode
ctrl-a [Use cursors of vim motions to move to relevant area.
Space to start selection, space again …
read more"Mavericks Disable Mail Sound"
Since upgrading to Mavericks I get a sound whenever I get mail. I find this very annoying so first port …
read more"Ruby iterate over lines in a string"
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git tag -a 0.0.1 -m "Tag comment" git push --tagsNote: The use of major.minor.patch Semantic …
read more"Bash String Manipulation"
Removal of substring:
string="test string" echo $string remove="test" short_string=${string#$remove} echo short_stringNote that inside the
read more${}string …"Octopress, Pages and Custom Domain"
In your
read moresourcesbranch, which is the main branch for writing creating posts, create aCNAMEfile in the sources …"Revert in Git"
and Remove Orphaned Commits.
I use
read moregitxgraphical tool on OS X to find the SHAs for commits. Revert back …"Edit Octopress Posts"
Creating new posts in Octopress is
rake new_post["Edit Posts"]which outputs the created filename.Posts are prefixed with date …
read more"Gnome: disable focus tracking"
Sometime ago I enabled focus tracking the mouse on Gnome. It took a while to find how to disable it …
read more"Monkey Patch Octopress"
Based on post_filters by imathis.
First Move the original method out the way with
read morealias_methodthen create a new method …"brew update fail"
Received the following errors when doing
brew updateon mountain lion:read moreerror: The following untracked working tree files would be …"git submodule update fatal"
$ git submodule update fatal: Needed a single revision Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'vim/bundle/systemverilog'To …
read more"Reverting in git"
I use to use
read moresvn revertto roll back local modification and get back to the state I was in …"rtorrent move on download completion"
rtorrent moving torrents upon completion:
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This is not a foolproof method, as vim colorschemes are just vim commands but by default they set:
read morelet g …"Cshrc alias loop"
Here are some aliased commands which stop line wrapping on really long lines, making the output much more readable:
read more# Stop …"Vim: Status line"
Deciding to see if I could make my vim status line a bit more practical for myself. I decided to …
read more"OS X Handbrake install libdvdcss (Decryption)"
"VIM: Convert tabs to spaces"
Good programming practice is to use spaces to indent code rather than tabs. Due to tabs often being rendered differently …
read more"set vs setenv"
setenv allows sub shells to inherit the value.
Set
read moreset x = "twenty" echo $x > twenty ## New Shell csh echo $x …"For loops in csh/tcsh"
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cat /etc/redhat-releaseReturns some thing like:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga)Find Kernel version using …
read more"Unlocking a Nokia 8310"
"Weather alerts via eMail from the MetOffice"
In the UK you can now get regional weather alerts from the Met Office.
Unfortunately it does not break it …
read more"tcsh check a var exists"
To check if an environment variable exists in .mycshrc or shell scripts
read moreif ($?TERM) then echo "TERM is $TERM" endif …"Ruby Evaluate Envvars in string."
In ruby Dir.entries takes a path and returns a list of its contents. However it does not deal with …
read more"Terminal Colours"
I have decided to clean up my vim colorschemes. I have been using ir_black for sometime but it does not …
read more"Home Wi-Fi"
On the continuous search for a decent ADSL, Router and Wireless access point. I have tried many (unscientifically). Finding that …
read more"Stackoverflow sites and images"
Stackoverflow have supported markdown for a while. The syntax for showing an image is :
read more![Holes in Leaf 1][1] [1 …"Ruby: optionally add path separator"
I was wanting to use Dir.glob to get a file list and wanted to do
read moreDir.glob( path + '*')but …"Add about page to Octopress"
To add static about page to octopress blog, assuming that octopress has been already setup:
Create the page from the …
read more"Push local folder to remote server over ssh"
After struggling to get the rake task for octopress to deploy I decided to fall back to the command line …
read more"Ubuntu and the Jetway ADPE4S"
Still unresolved
The Jetway ADPE4S uses a Marvell 88SE6145 chip which a number of users have had trouble getting to …
read more"Ubuntu (Linux) List Disks"
sudo lshw -class disk -class storage -shortOutputs :
read moreH/W path Device Class Description ===================================================== /0/100/1c.3/0 …"BT Broadband messing around with your DNS"
BT broadband has BT Web Address Help enabled by default. This allows then to redirect you to another site if …
read more"JavaScript Net Curtain"
Normally this would just end up on my link blog, but thought it was worthy of a proper mention.
read more"BitTorrent Sync, free rival to DropBox"
BitTorrent Sync although still in Beta offers a App and protocol for DropBox like file syncing. As it is an …
read more"ISO 8601 - Standardised Date Format YYYY-MM-DD"
ISO 8601, to me looks a lot like reversed British format which has been my standard for including in file …
read more"Algebra : Properties of Real (ℝ) Numbers"
Commutative
Configurable order of numbers:
x+y = y+x xy = yxAssociative
Order that multiplication is applied :
read more(x+y)+z …"Vim Code Folding"
To enable code folding in Vim type (from normal mode):
:set foldmethod=markerOr add this to your
.vimrcread moreset …"Ruby duck typing Strings and Arrays"
How to get method which handles a single string input or an array of strings?
Splat *
* turns single strings into …
read more"Reverting rtorrent version on Snow Leopard"
After running a
brew upgradertorrent was plagued with segmentation faults. Which look something like :read moreCaught Segmentation fault, dumping stack …"OS X Screen Capture"
To capture the screen on OS X :
⇧⌘4 : Selected area to capture.
⇧⌘4-space : Capture a window.These are defined in …
read more"Print nested array structures in table format"
Problem
Take an array of arrays and format it for displaying to the terminal or outputting to a text file …
read more"Converting flat structure into a nested structure"
Given a flat hierarchy of data comprising level and a label, aim to nest the lower level of objects in …
read more"Safari 6 not playing YouTube content"
After getting Safari 6 it seems that YouTube is no longer letting my watch video as html5 video formats and …
read more"Calculating Regression Coefficients in R"
For this example we will have a data file with two columns of data labelled A and B. For example …
read more"Git Submodules"
For code reuse within I have found Subversion externals really nice to work with. Instead of copy and pasting code …
read more"Retina Support for background images"
This is based on a guide to adding retina support to websites.
To add a tiled (repeating) background cretae 2 …
read more"Speed up Mission Control Animation"
If entering Mission Control (ctrl-up) is taking to long you can speed up the animation entering the following in the …
read more"Syncing Google Contacts in Mountain Lion"
A the time of writing Google exchange syncing only works on mobile devices, which is slightly annoying but mail, contacts …
read more"Syncing Safari via dropbox for pre iCloud OS X"
THIS NO LONGER WORKS, IF IT EVER DID :(
When you add a link to safari, it replaces the link to …
read more"Vim consistent spelling correction highlighting"
In gvim and mvim incorrect spellings are highlighted with a squiggly underscore ala MS Word. vim in a terminal (xterm …
read more"Get snipMate working, a #vim plugin"
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"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 5 /etc/hosts"
For ssh and ping to local machines with out the .local extension I added them to my /ets/hosts file …
read more"OS X Get Info Summary for multiple items"
If you use the ⌘I shortcut in finder with a file selected you get a 'Get Info' window. If you …
read more"#vim toggle between last 2 edited buffers"
ctrl-6Demo
For the example we will create 3 new temp files and then open them in vim.
read moretouch vim_test1 …"Mountain Lion finding the Library folder"
From OS X Lion the Users Library folder has been hidden. To find it make Finder the active application, that …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 4 Apps"
"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 3 : Little Snitch & Dotfiles"
Little Snitch
There is currently a preview (Beta) of [Little Snitch 3][littelsnitch3]. If you have not come across Little …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 2 Homebrew & RVM"
Following on from Macbook Pro Setup, Now it is time to install some of the command line tools.
I have …
read more"Xcode 4 Install, Disk Usage"
Some info on what has changed in Xcode 4.3. Latest is 4.4 but a lot changed in 4 …
read more"Mountain Lion Setup, Part 1 : Upgrade Lion"
MacBook Pro with Lion arrives, before installing any other software apply for the Up-to-Date Programme for free a mountain lion …
read more"Mountain Lion default $PATH"
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/binTo Reset it back to this value run (from /Applications/Utilities …
read more"Lion default $PATH"
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/binTo Reset it back to this value run …
read more"Web Automation with Watir"
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I have specifically been trying to find out how to transfer my full GB Memory Map OS 1:50K 2012 …
read more"Mac Mountain Lion Compatibility"
One of the limitations of mountain lion is that they are only going to support 64 bit Kernel extensions, the …
read more"Pragmatic Programmers, Dropbox integration"
After deciding to try out epub on the kindle, as I noticed people are listing epub as an apple format …
read more"Subscribe to a channel on YouTube iPad"
The subscribe button on the iPad youtube app is quite well hidden.
View a video from the channel you are …
read more"Gelaskins iPad cases"
Got the steam punk Gelaskins case yesterday, they can be a fiddle to fit but incredibly thin and adds grippines …
read more"iTunes Match and Genius, Why cant we have both?"
In iOS 5 If you have iTunes Match enabled ie to download your songs from the iCloud while on the …
read more"iPad Docks / Cradles"
Around up of nice looking ipad docks / cradles
From Just Mobile
read moreUpStand Encore Desktop Slide 
[ 
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While using a pool laptop from work and trying to connect to my home wifi I am prompted for my …
read more"Create And,Or of multiple booleans"
To reduce an array of Booleans to a single Boolean using enumerables reduce method:
read more[true, true, true].reduce( :| ) ## OR => true …"rspec testing exceptions"
"rspec testing exceptions (old post)"
"Ruby special exception variables made mnemonic"
In ruby you can catch StandardErrors using begin rescue end
read morebegin #Some thing which might fails rescue $stderr.puts $! end …"Handle www. and no-www for better google juice"
There was an interesting post on hacker news recently, safeshepherd suddenly fell off the google for their own name. The …
read more"Big Monitor Litmus Test"
A recent article by sef about how to judge an engineering companies respect engineers and the strength of the engineering …
read more"iPad 3 Tethering"
Three now have tethering available for the iPad 3, which can be read in the comments by moderators on the …
read more"Vim Terminal Colours"
"Using Github behind a restrictive firewall"
When working behind a restrictive firewall, which limits ssh connections you may be running into some of the following errors …
read more"Ubuntu, formatting a 3TB drive"
I started off following the ubuntu guide for installing a new drive, which uses fdsik to create the partitions how …
read more"Syntax error: Not a valid color stop: Sass::Script::String: white"
After making a few updates to my site it stopped working after deploying. The issue was that the gem version …
read more"Minify your HTML from Sinatra"
There are gzip compression options available but when I looked at this a long time ago I found that the …
read more"Sinatra application in ./lib and views, public routes not working"
I have been setting up my recent Sinatra projects with a standard ruby project layout putting all of the application …
read more"Update your RVM Ruby and migrate gemsets"
Update RVM
$ rvm get headList current versions, and all versions
$ rvm list $ rvm list knownSelect the version you …
read more"Bash script get current script directory"
Sometime a script needs to now the directory that it is executing from, the best solution for this is:
read moreDIR …"Encoding::UndefinedConversionError - "
Are you running into the following error
Encoding::UndefinedConversionError - "\xE2" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8:If you are using Ruby and …
read more"Trying to disable Caps Lock on Unix systems"
Entering the following command in to your .bashrc seems like a simple way forward.
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"However …
read more"CSS (Via SASS) Seperating Colour and Position"
While working on this site I wanted to find a simple way of trying out multiple stylesheets for different colour …
read more"User selectable stylesheets (Using Sinatra)"
Working on my site design I thought it would be nice to have user selectable stylesheets, say a black text …
read more"What shell am i using?"
If you are working on a new system or with multiple environments it is good to know what type of …
read more"SVN multi-line comments on the command line "
Answer:
svn commit -m $'Line 1 \nLine 2'The Problem
Committing to subversion on the command line and using escaped …
read more"unix mail command, delete all messages"
Cron jobs can have there results returned as mail via the unix mail system. If left unchecked for a while …
read more"list_temp_files script"
A simple script for finding temp files from the current directory and below. I often run this before adding a …
read more"Vim, paste from insert mode"
ctrl-r "Actually
ctrl-r reg, where " is the unnamed register from the last yank or delete.Why
If you have done …
read more"matrix: A Ruby Standard Library"
Originally written as an assignment for Ruby Mendicant University.
matrix is part of the Ruby Standard Library
Usage
A note …
read more"Recursive grep, with filtering"
I noticed today that greps recursive function is different to finds recursion.
find ./ -name *.txt grep -R 'text' *.textThe …
read more"Finding Tracks not in iTunes"
"Ruby get a users real name"
There does not appear to be a nice way to get a current users real name in ruby. The best …
read more"Ruby send message to stderr"
"Suppressing Warnings in Ruby Scripts"
Suppressing warnings is usually a bad idea but if you understand the risk and want to carry on regardless. When …
read more"Setting Ruby Defaults '||' vs 'fetch(){}'"
There is a very good presentation Confident Code by Avdi Grimm author of http://exceptionalruby.com/. Previously presented at Cascadia …
read more"Benchmarking Ruby, explicit vs implicit returns"
Back in 2009 barkingiguana wrote about how explicit returns
read more'return "String"'was slower than an implicit return, ie just letting …"Tagging a git repo and pushing tag to github"
This assumes that
originis the label for github.
Tagging a github repo for my gem releases I do:read more$ git …"Arrays 3, write idiomatic Ruby"
Previous posts arrays and arrays2
Based on a post by barkingiguana, some idiomatic ruby ways to handle arrays. Ruby tries …
read more"Ruby Search and Replace Script."
A small standalone script that search through a file doing text substitutions.
read more1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 …
"warning: already initialized constant"
Do you some times see:
read moreFileUtils.rb:93: warning: already initialized constant OPT_TABLE FileUtils.rb:1176: warning: already initialized constant …"Homebrew list outdated packages"
"Ruby Arrays Concatenation and Subtraction"
Building on my original Ruby Arrays article a few more things you can do with Ruby Arrays.
Concatenation
read morea = [1 …"Ruby Blocks for better code reuse"
While working on some disk space / folder structure scripts I had several functions which hierarchically search the disk then performed …
read more"Make Ubuntu Samba share show up on OS X 10.6 finder"
Install Avahi, it like bonjour auto discovery but for linux, then tell it about your servers samba service.
read more$ sudo apt-get …"New Macbook Air (2011) & OS X Lion"
The new (July 2011) Mac Book Air is now out, shipping with Lion.
The combination of these two fixes some …
read more"Get latest Ruby 1.9.2 build with RVM"
"Using ~/.ssh/config and no passowrds with Mac OS X"
Using ssh to securely connect with servers from the terminal is pretty easy. set up a public key and a …
read more"Using ~/.ssh/config and no passwords with Mac OS X"
Using ssh to securely connect with servers from the terminal is pretty easy. set up a public key and a …
read more"Ideas 1st July to the 3rd July"
When working with HDLs (Hardware Description Languages) there a few things that could be improved/made easier:
Renaming a file …
read more"Ruby Basic File Read and Write"
Read text file with one line:
Write text with one line :
Explanation and other ways
When reading a text file …
read more"uninitialized constant Compass::Logger"
Working on a joint project an error started showing up when trying to perform migrations.
read more$ rake db:migrate VERSION=0 …"Sinatra ActiveRecord DB config on Heroku"
To make an automatic ActiveRecord database connection using ENV['DATABASE_URL'] The following snippet can be used:
From ActiveRecord 3.2 …
read more"Ruby script connect to DB using database.yml"
To connect to a rails style DB config outside of the normal workflow, or using a database.yml in a …
read more"Setting up PostgreSQL on OS X"
An old guide is written on the Apple Developer Forum however if you are using Homebrew it is much simpler …
read more"Ruby Arrays, Part 1"
"Installing gist.vim"
This vim plugin will allow you to gist directly from vim, simple way is just :Gist to gist entire file …
read more"Obnoxious gem warnings"
recenlty after updating rubygems Istarted getting a lot of warning like this when running ruby or executable gems:
NOTE: Gem …
read more"Recent issue with building Gems"
When running gem build on a new library I have been working on I started getting the following error:
read more[ruby_svg_light …"bash scripts and cron"
I have not fully read it but it looks like this is a good guide to bash scripting. A few …
read more"vimfu end of line character placement"
In Vim to insert text before the cursor press 'i', to insert text after cursor 'a' or to edit at …
read more"Vimfu Reindent"
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Classes are a basic Object Orientated Structure which encapsulate state and behaviour. Some times you just require to capture state …
read more"Better Open Source Project Setup, with RVM & Bundler"
Based on 'Raise the bar, lower the pressure' given by Durran Jordan at ScotRubyConf 2011.
There has been some debate …
read more"Schwartzian Transform"
I recently heard about the Schwartzian transform, which is a sorting idiom from perl. It allows an array of objects …
read more"'unregistered torrent' flush the DNS"
If a torrent application has been running and torrents start showing a status of 'unregistered torrent' a likely cause is …
read more"Ruby CLI user input using gets"
Using a while true loop with 'gets' and a case statement, can create a compact command line interface for ruby …
read more"Amaras Site Updates"
I have just finished some minor updates to the site. The largest is the move to Droid Fonts, Google Fonts …
read more"ORM(Activerecord) or Ruby Sort"
Based on an old Article I wrote, investigating incase sensitive sorting performance.
I have an active record model call Tag …
read more"Activerecord Find All/Multiple"
Using Tags (An active record model) to find tags by the tag property:
read moreTag.find_by_tag("Ruby") Ruby Tag.find_by_tag(["Ruby …"gem permissions on WebFaction"
After making a few updates to my site I decided to upgrade the version of sinatra I was using in …
read more"Sinatra regex routes"
The routes for my site have been growing since adding pagination (/articles/older/) and tag filtering. As well as the …
read more"Mac mini (mid 2010) 8GB memory upgrade"
"My Backup Strategy"
Considering various raid strategies I decided that Raid 5 would be too limiting and have previously found raid striping systems …
read more"screen -x not connecting when running as an other user"
I have been running into issues with screen when switching to another user:
read more$ su otheruser > password $ screen -x > Cannot open …"Ruby Block Selection in Vim (Plugin)"
A new very cool plugin for Rubyists using Vim. RubyBlock TextObjects created by Drew Neil from Vimcasts.org. Once installed …
read more"Tagging a git repo for a Release "
I think it is good practise to create a read only tag when releasing an application. This allows you to …
read more"Fixing Ncursers on OS X 10.6.3+"
Currently OS X 10.6.3 - 10.6.5 the ncursers library is broken. A hacky fix is to copy …
read more"Mac OS X libSystem cache out of sync"
For various reasons Mac OS X (at least 10.6) can get the system cache out of sync with the …
read more"Put methods not working with Classy Sinatra apps"
Since moving to Classy Sinatra applications I have not been able to get put and delete methods to work correctly …
read more"rake aborted! undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass"
I am currently switching between runing migrations locally on an sqlite3 database and postgres for production on Heroku.
When switching …
read more"Sinatra Heroku and config.ru"
Rack applications often require a config.ru for deployment. The standard config.ru for classic sinatra applications is well documented …
read more"Sinatra Session Extension"
I have just started to use a sinatra extensions called Sinatra Session. The write up on the main site is …
read more"Sinatra reload source file changes in development mode"
Sinatra Reloader is a sinatra extension which reloads source files while in development mode, this functionality was removed from base …
read more"OS X open finder from command line"
"Stop/Start and Restart Samba on OS X"
To Stop Start and Restart Samba on Mac OS X 10.6:
read moresudo /usr/sbin/smbd stop sudo /usr/sbin …"Ruby each or delete_if"
In ruby some times you want to iterate over an array and remove items that meet certain conditions, if using …
read more"Storing secret keys in Ruby config files an approach"
I have for a while wondered about an ideal (good) approach to storing api keys in config files in ruby …
read more"Remove sensitive data from git"
"Amazon Drops EC2 Web Service Prices"
The new EC2-Pricing also includes a new Micro service. This micro service is intended for small apps servicing tens of …
read more"Ruby Regular Expressions Lookahead / Lookbehind"
I recently discovered a feature of regular expressions called lookahead. This means for a match the lookahead must exist but …
read more"Ruby Time save and Restore (serialise)"
One method to save a time and restore it correctly:
read moredef get_time_run ## File Access based on ## http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim …"Mac OS X Harddrive Spin Down Time"
The Preferences menu in OS x give you the option to turn off Hard Disks whenever possible to save power …
read more"Mac OS X Default Path"
As this seemed to be a useful post on my old blog I am reposting it. Just in case the …
read more"Error: NoMethodError: undefined method `compact' for nil:NilClass"
When running a sequel migration I kept getting this error:
Error: NoMethodError: undefined method `compact' for nil:NilClassMy setup …
read more"Basic grep usage"
Grep is a unix (and mac os x) command line tool to search files for text.
read more
1) Search for all …"Removing Ports OS X"
"Active Record attributes simplify update and create."
In Active Record when updating records I used to have an very manual process to this some thing like:
read more@todo …"Active Record create unique or return existing element"
When working with databases it is often a requirement to have unique elements (columns) which are not the primary key …
read more"Activerecord queries on table joins"
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read more"Installing Ruby Enterprise on Mac OS X"
Download ruby enterprise and follow instructions on page. The exact commands I used are:
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I can use a …
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