Installing the PIRETS Drupal module on a LAMP stack using Drush.
How to Get RDoc to Use Your README file
I was setting up a Ruby project with RDoc today and ran into a problem.
Every time RDoc ran, I saw the following:
Setting up Crontab for Drupal
Cron is an essential part of the Drupal CMS. It is used for things like retrieving syndicated RSS feeds from other sites and syndicating infomation from your own site. The cron feature is also used by many other modules to handle required background processing. Continue reading “Setting up Crontab for Drupal”
Ruby Rake: Rake aborted! Error
Came across a strange error today while using Rake… I kept getting a Rake aborted! error whenever rake tried to create a distribution directory using the ‘directory’ command.
Additionally, rake was reporting: stopping only thread … note: use sleep to stop forever.
(I am putting this here in case anyone is googling it, like I did).
It turns out that I was trying to have the rake file create a directory named ‘dist’ and the name was what was causing the problem. I think that there is a conflict with the directory name and a built-in task or something similar.
The work around?
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Turning off the ‘Posted By XXX on XX/XX/XXXX’ on drupal nodes
Once you know where the settings are at, it is quite easy.
Go to:
Themes | Configure | Global Settings
There is a block of checkboxes to turn the ‘posted by’ settings on/off for each content type.
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EXCEPT unions in MySQL
Today, I figured out how to do a EXCEPT union equivilant in MySQL:
How do you get all of the rows in a table that DON’T exist in another? Here it is folks!