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nginx expires config

indiehead (John) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:12:01 GMT



  location ~* ^.+\.(js|css|php|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|pdf|zip|rar)$ {

    root   /var/www/apps/myapp/public;

    access_log   off;

    expires      7d;

  }

nginx gzip config

indiehead (John) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:09:29 GMT



  # output compression saves bandwidth 

  gzip              on;

  gzip_proxied      any;

  gzip_http_version 1.1;

  #gzip_min_length   1100;

  gzip_comp_level   5;

  #gzip_buffers      4 8k;

  gzip_types        text/plain text/html text/xml text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/atom+xml;

  #gzip_vary        on;

  #gzip_disable     "MSIE [1-6]\.";

rails sendmail settings

indiehead (John) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:23:44 GMT



config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

ActionMailer::Base.sendmail_settings = {

    :location       => '/usr/sbin/sendmail',

    :arguments      => '-i -t'

}

record grouping

indiehead (John) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:22:33 GMT



@users = User.find(

  :all, 

  :select => "MONTH(created_at) as month, YEAR(created_at) as year, COUNT(*) AS records",

  :conditions => ["admin = 0'"], 

  :group => "year, month")



<% for @user in @users %>

  <%=@user.month%>

  <%=@user.year%>

  <%=@user.records%>

<% end %>

date_select conversion

indiehead (John) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:20:35 GMT

function to convert a value from a date_select into a more sql-friendly value



<%=date_select(:date,'',:start_year => 1950,:include_blank => false, :default => { :year => '1970' })%>



def convert_date(obj) 

  return “#{obj[‘(1i)’]}-#{obj[‘(2i)’]}-#{obj[‘(3i)’]}” 

end