When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...
In a nutshell: to avoid your shell character set from messing with imports, use -r to export and SOURCE when...
ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET "utf8"; ALTER DATABASE database_name COLLATE "utf8_unicode_ci"; After that, for...
This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:
Unless all MySQL server defaults are set to UTF-8, mysqldump encodes UTF-8 characters incorrectly and only outputs correct...
Most of these will not work in newer projects because these use the Capybara/Rack::Test combo in lieu of Webrat...
To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and...
MMM (MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager) is a set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master...
After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a...
Store schema-less data in MySQL.
They don't teach you this in college, but the fundamental theorem of the software industry is the idea that...
Subfolio provides an elegant, practical and customizable web interface to your file system. Super fast to set-up and use...