I wanted to post an entry yesterday but Dreamhost seemed to be having some problems, because WordPress complained of being unable to reach the database. Never a good sign, but things seem to be back to normal today. I’m at … Continue reading
I’m at my parents’ house for the weekend and I’ve spent my evening tinkering on my computer. I copied all my photos off of my old drive to my new one, as well as some choice wallpapers. I also configured … Continue reading
You’ve probably heard the stereotype that women can’t drive. That’s a popular stereotype because it’s true so darn often. I’m so sick and tired of bad drivers in this city. I commute to and from work daily, as well as … Continue reading
Given a table object, it returns the related string object; e.g. SubAttribute => ‘sub-attribute’. Useful if you want to make a list of all your tables with perhaps their fields listed out to the side. Ruby def stringify_table( table, replace_char … Continue reading
I frequently have a collection of values that I want to match in an ActiveRecord query, but it would be nice if I could let ActiveRecord handle checking the data and escaping it properly. So, I wrote this method to … Continue reading