$ gem install rails --no-rdoc --no-ri

But there’s another way to prevent documentation from being installed. Create a .gemrc file in your home directory with the following:

gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc

Now you don’t have to worry about supplying the command line options, this will give you no documentation by default.

First I wrapped the handles with some old telephone cord to give them more girth.

On the bottom handle, I used some smaller cord for finger grips. I also secured the cords with duct tape.

Finally, I dipped the handles in Plasti Dip to give them a nice rubbery grip. Notice how the bottom handle has a slight curve to it.

My grass shears still look old and worn, but they work solidly and the handles are very plush and comfortable. In hindsight, I probably wouldn’t have wrapped the handles with duct tape as this made them somewhat lumpy after I plasti-dipped them. Also, I probably would have picked the red Plasti Dip, the black one is a bit dull to me.

First, add the Window Buttons to each taskbar, right-click on your panel:

Panel –> Add New Items –> Window Buttons

After this, right-click on each Window Buttons item in the taskbar (panel) and click Properties. You’ll find the option in there:

Un-check the option: Show windows from all monitors

(Another useful property to be aware of is Sorting order: None, allow drag-and-drop. This will let you drag your windows around in the taskbar around, but then you lose the default sorting, too bad you can’t have the best of both worlds.)

Took me a while to figure this one out, hopefully it will save someone some time or save me some time if I have to do it again.

Example:

messages.delete('twitter') unless user.twitter_username

Using the translation, this Ruby code would read as: delete twitter messages except if the user has a twitter username.

Using and reading unless in Ruby was like Greek to me when I first saw it, but now that my brain automatically makes the association/translation for me, using it has become second nature.

Hopefully this technique will help someone else struggling to use unless in Ruby.

If you’re using Windows XP, delete the associated files from:

C:\Documents and Settings\~username\Application Data\Adobe\Fireworks CS5\ ..
Commands\Workspace Layouts\

If you’re using Windows 7, the files can be found at:

C:\Users\~username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Fireworks CS5\Commands\ ..
Workspace Layouts\

If you’re using a Mac the associated files are located at:

~username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fireworks CS5/Commands/ ..
Workspace Layouts/

• Right click on one of your existing taskbars and select New Panel.
• Right click on the new panel (taskbar) that got created and select Properties.
• Un-check Expand (keep the Panel Properties open).
• Drag the new panel to your secondary monitor.
• In the Panel Properties window, change the Orientation to Bottom (or whatever you want).
• Re-check Expand.
• Then click Close to exit.

This will get you a secondary taskbar. Now you can customize it. One thing I like to do is add a window list to the secondary taskbar so you can see which applications are open on each monitor.

• Right click on the new taskbar and select Add to Panel…
• Select and Add Window List.

That should be it, just keep customizing your new taskbar until you’re happy.

Here’s how to map a directory so you can access it via Apache without it being in the webroot.

Add this to your httpd.conf file:

<IfModule alias_module>
  Alias /myphpsite/ "D:/websites/myphpsite/"

  <Directory "D:/websites/myphpsite/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</IfModule>

Just update “myphpsite” with your own alias and update “D:/websites/myphpsite/” with the drive/directory of the actual site. I tested this using Apache2.2.

First, I downloaded the latest SQlite3 DLL. (I grabbed the DLL of the SQLite library without the TCL bindings.)

Then, I exracted the .dll and .def files to my C:\ruby\bin directory and that fixed my issue. (You’ll might have to restart your console session.)

These steps will also fix this error message:
“The procedure entry point sqlite3_column_database_name could not be located in the dynamic link library sqlite3.dll.”

Hope this helps someone else running into the same issue.

def self.up
  if RAILS_ENV == 'development'
    # set all of your test data for development...
  end
end

First, you can install the TinyMCE Advanced plugin for WordPress. After this is installed, go into the TinyMCE Advanced settings and enable the option – “Stop removing the <p> and <br /> tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor”. And then you can add all the <br /> tags you want.

The second solution, which I like better is to use <br clear=”none” /> in your posts. This will work without any plugins. Now, a couple of things worth mentioning. If you put this tag on it’s own line in your post, WordPress will put <br clear=”none” /> and <br /> inside of a <p>, thus making it two line breaks. But if you use it on the same line as another sentence, it will only add one line break. Either way, you can control the formatting of the line breaks with CSS using something like this…

br[clear="none"] {
  margin: 5px 0;
}

.entry br {
  margin: 2px 0;
}

I hope this was helpful. Also, if you want to learn how to stop WordPress from automatically adding <p> and <br /> to your post, read my other post: How to control WordPress HTML formatting.