mysql collation issues

2007-11-12T20:11:00Z

Whenever I forgot to to change the collation of my newly created database I started getting angry... When I am angry I usually sigh a lot. But that's not the point of this post.

The point is, if it's too late to recreate the database and all its tables, you will have to change a collation for:

database itself
all the tables inside this database
all the fields in all the tables

Developers are usually not aware of the third one. And that really sucks balls.

DRYing html boxes

2007-11-09T19:15:00Z

Creating html boxes can result in a lot of repetitive lines of code when you use a lot of them in your projects. Take this one for example. It is not so long... I can show you examples that are more messy but you don't want that, do you? :-)

<div class="box">
        <div class="r-tl"></div><div class="r-tr"></div>
        <div class="r-bl"></div><div class="r-br"></div>
        <div class="body">
            bla bla bla
        </div>
</div>

The only part that contains different html code in different boxes is inside div with class="body". So, we can create a helper method and call it with a block where we put that specific html code inside.

def box(style, &block)
   raise 'Block expected!' unless block_given?
   content = capture(&block)
                
   html = <<-EOF
   <div class="box" style="#{style}">
      <div class="r-tl"></div><div class="r-tr"></div>
      <div class="r-bl"></div><div class="r-br"></div>
      <div class="body">
            #{content}
      </div>
   </div>
   EOF
   concat(html, block.binding)
end

123	<% box('width: 500px;') do %> bla bla bla<% end %>

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