The Interactive Ruby Shell, or IRB, doesn’t have a way to clear all variables that I am aware of besides quitting irb and then restarting irb however you can simulate this by invoking subirbs. Subirbs are jobs underneath the main irb session that will allow you to work within irb on different code at the…
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The Interactive Ruby Shell, or irb, is a great tool to use when debugging Ruby code. You can launch it from a shell window and quickly determine where errors in your Ruby code. Obviously irb is not always the best tool to use when debugging a large code base however for quick hints to where errors…
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If you get the below relation error it probably means you have spelled the table name wrong in a select statement. I was going through multiple tables tonight in a PostgreSQL database attempting to check a certain ID on a per table basis and I came across a table that provided the below error.
I recently installed the Youtube With Fancy Zoom WordPress plugin on one of my personal web sites so I could upload and display videos of my daughters. This plugin allows you to upload videos to the YouTube, reference them in your WordPress admin, and then display them in a nice pop up window on your…
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I was looking to convert some AVI videos I had created recently to DVD so my neighbor could watch the videos using their DVD player but I hadn’t done this in quite awhile so I began the search for some good open source software. After awhile I realized I had purchased a desktop recently and…
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A friend of mine let me know about a vulnerability in Redmine today so I decided to upgrade to the latest stable release. Upgrading Redmine is easy but figured I would log the exact steps I took to upgrade from Redmine 0.8.3 to Redmine 0.8.7. The installation of Redmine I upgraded is running off of…
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After setting the time in my sisters Jeep Cherokee I decided I should also connect her iPhone to the Uconnect system via Bluetooth. The Uconnect system will allow you to receive calls, dial calls, etc. verbally in your car so you don’t have to look a t your cell phone while dialing. The Uconnect system…
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I was on a trip with my little sister this week in her 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee that has a navigation system in it. The clock was an hour ahead so I offered to figure out how to set the clock to the proper time. I was a little confused when I looked into the…
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I recently had to install Redmine and SVN for our Backtrack development sever. The install went fine however when I got finished the default Redmine theme started looking a little lame.