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(Ruby) Add class methods for ruby classes - vanne

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:24:18 UTC

(Ruby) Parse HTML when reading atom feeds - vanne

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:40 UTC

(Ruby) IRB clear screen on windows - vanne

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:15:23 UTC

Since there is no convenient way to clear the console in irb on windows, we can simple emulate the dos cls function

(Ruby) Use helpers in controllers or models - vanne

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:27:03 UTC

This is an easy to use any helpers that rails provides in any other place besides views and view helpers

(Ruby) Shortcut for find method in rails - vanne

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:23:12 UTC

Put this in environment.rb to use in your whole app or the console

(Ruby) Search Methods in irb - vanne

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:36:25 UTC

This allows you to search any INSTANCE or CLASS methods of any objects including rails models, which is helpful if you want to see the methods that you created yourself.

(Ruby) shortcut method for display table schema - vanne

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:13:50 UTC

Add this inside your .irbrc file to call "show Model" in your console instead of "y Model.column_names"

(Ruby) decimal method for float objects - vanne

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:48:34 UTC

Extend any float object to allow for decimal conversion

(Ruby) System Wide Console Logging - vanne

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:15:54 UTC

Add this to your ~/.irbrc file and you will have inline logging in the console

(Ruby) Sanitize String - vanne

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:50:04 UTC

Use this to sanitize a string and convert all wierd characters to your choice of delimiter

(Ruby) Just in time convenience methods - vanne

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:56:02 UTC

Using instance_eval to abstract values into meaningful methods

(Ruby) Grab current db schema using rake - vanne

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:25:52 UTC

put this into lib/tasks and then run rake db:version

(Ruby) assert_difference - vanne

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:47:09 UTC

A custom assertion that will allow you to pass a block to find the difference between two values.

(Ruby) Using Enumerable#select to create a specific array - vanne

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:43:27 UTC

Useful for when you need to do a find and map specific results to an array for use later

(Ruby) Tableless Model - vanne

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:31:49 UTC

This is useful for using ActiveRecord validations without the ActiveRecord DB dependencies, this snippet is meant to be used with Textmate... create this in models/name_of_your_model to use.

(Ruby) Turn off Rails Layouts for AJAX Requests - vanne

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:00:05 UTC

This allows you to turn off ajax requests application wide, so that you don't have to do render :layout => false in every controller that needs it.