Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:59:57 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/3409/pager-for-lots-o-data <p>This function (intended to be an application or view helper) creates a pager bar useful for navigating many pages. It shows the first, last, current, nearby, and halfway-to-end pages. It looks like this (where the current page is 11): < 1 ... 5 ... 10 11 12 ... 14 15 > The pagerBar function takes two parameters: a RoR paginator, and an anchor that will be attached to all the links.</p> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:04:47 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/3409/pager-for-lots-o-data https://snipplr.com/view/3408/format-strings-like-print-using <p>This is an extension to Ruby's String class. Just put this code in a file and include it. This basically takes a string and adds literals and padding to it. For example, you can format a phone number with optional area code like this: "5445556747".using('(###) ###-####', '', true) => (544) 555-6747</p> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:54 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/3408/format-strings-like-print-using