I ran into this problem where I was getting “uninitialized constant” errors when running rake tasks. These are tasks which had been working and I verified that the proper paths were set (eager_load_paths). When searching I saw information about config.threadsafe! being a problem so I disabled it and the problems vanished. However, I wanted to …
I did some research and found a lot of discrepancy among recommendations for the decimal precision when doing geocoding. Some say you only need 4 digits of precision and others suggest up to 15. In my own testing the best results seemed to be with 6-digits and SQL type of PRECISION(9,6) for latitude and longitude. …
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Validating URL Addresses http_url_validation_improved (1.3.1) – uses Addressable::URI.parse, can check url connectivity url_validation (1.0.0) – uses Addressable::URI.parse, can check url connectivity url_validator (0.1.0) – uses Addressable::URI.parse validate_url (0.2.0) – simple, Rails 3 only, uses URI.parse validates_url_format_of (0.3.0) – Rails 2 and 3, uses regexp Obviously people’s needs will differ but I think validate_url suites my …
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If you want to get the numeric month from strftime your only only is %m which is zero padded. So January is “01”. But what if you don’t want zero padding? Turns out that’s non-trivial, unless you’re on a system that supports strftime flags. Then you can use “%-m” for no padding (“1”) and “%_m” …