I just ran into an issue with the Paperclip gem not allowing a user to upload documents of the docx variety even though I had the ’application/msword’ content type allowed in my model.  It turns out that the docx content type is a much longer string.  To get the upload to validate properly, you need to...

We’re working on the new blenderbox site, and we’re moving from SQL server to a MySQL server and I wanted to quickly move our project data from our old server to the new one. I came across a great way to import data into a MySQL database directly from a CSV file. Firstly, you’ll need...

I recently had to install all of this ^ on a CentOS machine.  I found myself jumping all over the place trying to figure it out.  This isn’t the first time I’ve had to do this, and it probably won’t be the last time, so I decided to document my journey! This is not a...

I’ve been reworking search functionality on a fairly large Drupal 6 installation.  Until recently, every time I changed what the search indexed for a custom module, I just went to /admin/settings/search and clicked ‘Re-index site’. This works on smaller websites, but when a website grows to have thousands and thousands of searchable nodes, re-running the...