Okay, I’ve wanted to make a custom TextMate theme since I first installed the thing on my MacBook in 2006. Today I present you with ‘Epic’.
Installation
Grab the theme here: EpicBlue.tmTheme.zip (1.5k). Unzip it and open it with TextMate. That’s all. Enjoy!
When using Rails + MySQL, you’ll find that normal string (or varchar(255)) fields are case insensitive. This can be quite a nuisance, but it’s easy to resolve. You need to set your table to the utf8_bin collation. By using the binary variant, you’re basically enabling case sensitivity.
I literally always have to look up the meaning of :limit in migrations when it comes to integer values. Here’s an overview. Now let’s memorise it (oh, this works for MySQL, other databases may work differently):
The past few days I’v taken some time to find out how to create a Ruby Gem. This has been on my to-do list for quite a while, but now I’m able to tick it off.
Well, what did I make?
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