A very concise ruby on rails helper method that converts seconds into human readable format. It will not display any time periods that have 0 (ie: 1 hour 13 seconds - skipping minutes as there were none) Due to complexity, months were not factored...

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0 1411 posted 10 years ago by uberdragon

Ruby Seeding database from .XLS file

I had a spreadsheet with a ton of data on it that I wanted in my seeds file. Using example columns in your database titled db_column1, db_column2, db_column3. Place your .xls file into your public folder and run 'gem install roo'

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0 727 posted 10 years ago by asalgan

Ruby Turn CSV With Headers Into Array Of Hashes

To be improved to work with fasterCSV

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0 955 posted 10 years ago by legrandkay

Ruby Get string between two strings

If you're using Rails and want to make this a global function, drop this into your application_controller and call it as a function. Example: # get_string_between("hellomyfriendmoto", 'o', 'm') # > myfriend

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0 1196 posted 11 years ago by joshmn

Ruby `rb output margin

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0 722 posted 11 years ago by zhaowu

Rails Validate credit card

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0 1898 posted 11 years ago by Fivell

Rails Rails fix for cookie munging AT&T Proxies

Working on the problem described here: http://forums.att.com/t5/Data-Messaging-Features-Internet/3G-proxy-wnsnet-attws-com-strips-HTTP-response-headers/m-p/3294533/highlight/false#M59737 After some testing we found the below code to fix our troubl...

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0 796 posted 11 years ago by mightybs

Ruby Capture Screenshots in Ruby

Use this Gem to programmatically take screenshots of websites with this completely open source and free library. We have also provided easy to follow online tutorials and sample applications to help you set up GrabzIt as quickly as possible. First...

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1 985 posted 11 years ago by Maximus1983

Rails SoluciÃ³n: Rails no encuentra la librerÃa MySQL aunque estÃ© instalada (OS X)

Esto suele ocurrer muy amenudo cuando instalamos Ruby on Rails antes que MySQL. Es un error "Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib (LoadError)" donde lista los directorios donde busca y no lo encuentra. La soluciÃ³n es guiarle para que lo encue...

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0 736 posted 12 years ago by skozz

Ruby Ruby: Search Spotify API

Simple test showing how to make a request to Spotify's API.

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2 877 posted 12 years ago by chrisaiv

Ruby Image Uploading in Ruby

Checks to make sure the file is a valid image file, checks max file size, and directory write permissions, requires 'fileutils' gem.

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2 898 posted 12 years ago by kellishaver

Ruby Fetch remote JSON in Ruby

An example method for fetching remote JSON data in Ruby.

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2 924 posted 12 years ago by vestimir

Ruby Ruby: Parsing Blackberry Download Reports

The Blackberry AppWorld portal allows you to schedule reports which are delivered as CSV.zip files. Although the CSV file offers a lot of detail about operating system and date of download, most of the time I just want to know which users downloaded...

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0 750 posted 12 years ago by chrisaiv

Ruby Singleton Pattern MacRuby

Works fine for MacRuby applications

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0 816 posted 12 years ago by iloveitaly

Ruby Ruby: SMPTE Converter

If you need to do any sort of screen capturing using FFMPEG, you might need this one day

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0 762 posted 12 years ago by chrisaiv

Bash Rescue any exception in Ruby

From the Pickaxe, 4th edition, p. 352: A rescue clause with no parameter is treated as if it had a parameter of StandardError. This means that some lower-level exceptions will not be caught by a parameterless rescue class. If you want to rescue ev...