All posts tagged with 'Code Snippets'

Grails startup parameter

09-Feb-09

Just some snippets from the doku that I tend to forget: Run grails on a different port: grails -Dserver.port=9090 run-appgrails -Dserver.port=9090 run-app Run grails with a different environment: grails prod run-app // production grails -Dgrails.env=mycustomenv run-app // mycustomenvgrails prod run-app // production grails -Dgrails.env=mycustomenv run-app // mycustomenv

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PDF::Writer and Ruby on Rails 2.2.2

24-Nov-08

If you followed the instructions here and used the method named PDF::Writer (Austin Ziegler), you we’re out of luck when Rails 2.1 appeared. With Rails 2.2.2 once again the rendering mechanism seems to have changed big time and my previous post on how to make the pdf/writer gem work with a custom template handler doesn’t […]

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RFC3339 revisited

13-Nov-08

Not just for ruby but also the corresponding formats for Java public static final SimpleDateFormat RFC3339_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZ");public static final SimpleDateFormat RFC3339_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZ"); and for Oracle SELECT to_timestamp_tz(’1979-21-09T06:54:00+01:00′,’YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SSTZH:TZM’) FROM dual /select to_timestamp_tz(‘1979-21-09T06:54:00+01:00′,’YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SSTZH:TZM’) from dual / Oracle

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Turn off RoRs automatic timezone conversion for columns

I couldn’t find this in the documents, but Geoff Buesing showed me the hooks to turn off Ruby On Rails’ automatic timezone conversions for some columns of a model or a complete model: # Turn it off for just some columns class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base def self.skip_time_zone_conversion_for_attributes [:created_at, :published_at] end end   # Turin it […]

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