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(Rails) ActiveScaffold generate

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:11:46 GMT

Requires ActiveScaffoldTools script/generate active_scaffold Model admin/Controller script/destroy active_scaffold Model admin/Controller - also works

(Rails) String Right function

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:10:25 GMT

left most 4 digits of social. In Ruby: social_security[-4,4] In Rails: social_security.last[4]

(Rails) Favorite Plugins as Externals

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:45:25 GMT

(Rails) Avoid duplicate column Error in Migration

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:36:41 GMT

Add "rescue nil" to migration commands that you want the migration to try but don't care if it fails. Helpful for debugging migrations and helpful when you want to modify a previous migration, let's say add a column, and you don't want the remove column in the drop block to choke your reverse migration.

(Rails) ActiveScaffoldTools generate command

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:27:58 GMT

script/generate active_scaffold Model Controller

(Rails) Can't Figure Out why Rails won't start on a server

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:25:45 GMT

If Rails fails to start and you don't know why because of some not so helpful error message. Some times it helps to:

(Rails) Reset Model to see columns added in Migration

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:20:28 GMT

If you want to use the Model after adding/removing columns in a migration call this method before accessing the model.