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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.
Run Multiple Rails Servers at the Same Time
It's annoying to shut down and start up your Rails server when jumping between projects. Learn how to run multiple servers at the same time.
Preview Emails in Rails
Rails 4.1 introduced the ability to preview email messages from your mailers without sending an email. Learn how ...
Order Rails Query by Virtual Attribute
Rails' scopes don't work well with virtual attributes since they resolve to a SQL query. Instead you can throw them in an array and then sort by a virtual attribute.
How To Reverse a Ruby Hash
It's nice and easy to reverse a ruby array. See how to easily convert a hash as well.
Rails has_many :through Polymorphic Association
How to maintain HMT behavior on a polymorphic association.
Related Content (without metadata) in Rails using tf-idf
Sometimes metadata isn't available. Other times you don't want to rely on it. Here's a method for finding related content using term frequency / inverse document frequency.
Add Custom JavaScript and Stylesheets from SharePoint Master Page
You can add JavaScript and CSS files to your master page if you want to overwrite some default styles or add some functionality via a new script.
Dynamically Add JavaScript and CSS Files to Your Website Using JavaScript
When you can't use a JavaScript or CSS concatenater, this method can be useful for adding scripts and styles to your site on the fly.
Learn Git in an Hour
Although I'm no expert, I've outlined the things I think you need to know to get started using Git.
Get WordPress Post Tags as Links
How to extract post tags and make them into links while in The Loop.