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ActionController::Base.helpers proxy

sam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:08:07 +0000

ActionController::Base.helpers is a proxy object you can use to access Rails view helpers, outside of views, e.g.:

1	ActionController::Base.helpers.pulralize(products.count, 'product')

sam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:21:47 +0000

Railscast 20 reminded me that

helper_method :name

makes controller method name available in views.

sam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:27:47 +0000

As described here, Command-Shift-4 will capture a dragged area of the screen and save it to a file.

Command-Shift-3 will capture the entire screen, or if you have SnapProX running, it activates it.

sam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:02:33 +0000

I keep forgetting where this is, and I can’t find it in google right now, so lets blog it: The builtin Screen Sharing tool in Mac OS X Leopard is at:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app

Just run it and it will prompt you for a server to connect to. From the command line use open -a with the above path

sam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:21:15 +0000

Just found out how to test named routes in the Rails console here:

script/console
>> app.webpages_url :site => "foo"
=> "http://www.example.com/foo/webpages"
>>

The mysterious app object is described here.

sam — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:57:34 +0000

sudo port selfupdate