Lighten or darken a hexadecimal color in Ruby on Rails
If you have a hexadecimal color (string) that you want to lighten or darken, these two methods will be very handy for you.
Rails - Upcoming birthdays for a selected month
If you have an application that stores people and their birth dates, it can be suprisingly difficult to find out whose birthdays are this month or next month.
Rails - Convert phone numbers to international format for SMS
This post will show you how to convert almost any phone number into a consistent and reliable international format that can be used to send SMS messages.
Rails 3 - Chargify webhooks and how to test in development
This is a quick post on how to integrate chargify (subscription billing) webhooks into your Rails 3 app.
Rails 3 Select List Items with Custom Attributes
This post is to assist with adding custom attributes (like the new html 5 data attributes) to items within a select control using Rails 3.
Rails Basics - before_save and items pending destruction
This is a short post to discuss a "gotcha" you might encounter when using the before_save event with nested models that may have destroy pending.
Rails Basics - Using rails routes in jQuery ajax callbacks
These “Rails Basics” blog posts are simple how-to’s for Rails 3. These are aimed at beginners to Rails, but prior programming knowledge will be helpful. This post will assist you in using rails routes while doing jQuery ajax callbacks.