http://blog.paddyonline.in Tech Notes, Snippets, Trends and Business Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:29:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was having few projects on my MAC and was really bugged up with maintaining the port numbers and other stuffs, a real cumbersome. After, Jacek's thought on this, I had set up the following: Install the gem: sudo gem install ghost after that add a virtual host sudo ghost add paddy.local (a choice of ... http://blog.paddyonline.in/2010/01/05/add-multiple-virtual-host-along-with-passenger/ After a long awaiting for the actual launch of 3G service in Chennai, its available now. I rushed up to the customer service center and got myself the 3G Sim Card and just tried the net speed which BSNL claims  upto 3.6 MBPS ...but the result is shown in the ... http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/11/23/bsnl-3g-speed/ I wanted to search for a value in DB and the column data is comma separated values say ... foo,bar,hey,hay Now I wanted to find a record based on the value ...say ...hay MySQL's FIND_IN_SET comes into play and it works as follows ["FIND_IN_SET(?,search_column)", search_string]) %> Hope this helps! http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/11/22/search-comma-separated-values-db-column-in-rails/ After going through, few post on pagination for the tags, this worked for me. size, :page => params[:page], :per_page => 1) %> http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/09/01/making-will_paginate-to-work-with-acts_as_taggable_on_steriods/ I was having lot of trouble on installing the MySQL Gem for Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.9 via XAMPP. I have the XAMPP running and also mySQL. Here are the steps. 1. Install XAMPP for MAC 2. Install XAMPP Dev Package 3. From your terminal type the following command and you'll see the following sudo ... http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/07/26/installing-mysql-gem-on-mac-osx-with-xampp/ def is_active? (start_date .. expiry_date) === DateTime.now end http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/04/13/is-active/ I was looking for a Rspec bundle for textmate and it is here with steps to follow and simply superb! http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/installing-the-latest-rspec-textmate-bundle/ Pads http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/03/25/rspec-bundle-for-textmate/ Currently, I am working on few files and when you do a git pull, you may sometimes get a message as follows: error: Entry 'app/views/alerts/index.rhtml' not uptodate. Cannot merge. So you know, somebody has updated the code and you do need to commit the file so that the file can be merged ... http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/03/10/git-stash/ If you just wanted to run only the controller specs, then you have to use the following command rake spec:controllers http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/02/21/run-controller-spec/ Today, it was a shock, that I have deleted few files without my knowledge. Fortunately, before deleting I had committed the files and so no much of tension. You can use the following commands to restore it. View the list of deleted files: git ls-files -d This will list the deleted file and ... http://blog.paddyonline.in/2009/02/19/restore-files-with-git/