Archive for July, 2009
How to Truncate in Models
Posted by jdempcy in Ruby on Rails on July 13, 2009
I recently had the difficult time of trying to truncate a string in a model. Rails enforces this policy because truncation is thought to be in the domain of the view of the data. This makes sense, because you are “seeing” a portion of the string. However, in this case, I was using the truncated string in the generation of an SEO-friendly URL. Read the rest of this entry »
How to stop the server in Rails
Posted by grandecomplex in Ruby on Rails on July 13, 2009
It is quite simple to do, just need a little Linux know how.
To stop the server you need to kill it. Thus you use the
kill
command. Not so fast, you first need the “pid” for the process. Much like in Windows where you open the task manager and you kill a process. Unfortunately it isn’t so easy in Linux/Mac. Read the rest of this entry »
Useful MySQL commands with Ruby on Rails on a Mac or in Linux
Posted by grandecomplex in Ruby on Rails on July 13, 2009
Because RoR is so high level often times you can feel disconnected with what’s under the hood. Often times you need to view what objects, or columns, you are working with. Or you delete columns. Here are a handful of common mysql commands that I use often in RoR. Read the rest of this entry »
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