02/09/2010: Heroku Tip; Use a Ping or Uptime Service As a Cron Job.
This is a pass-along tip from Toby Hede (http://stackoverflow.com/users/14971/toby-hede) on StackOverflow. Just give the Ping service the URL of the controller doing the work instead of your root page.
02/09/2010: Rails Tip - How Do I See Params From My Forms?
I like to document what my forms are sending to my action methods. So most of the time, I create a method in my controller like this:
def to_export render :text => params.inspect endThen I use copy and paste to put the result into my code as a comment.
# {
# "commit"=>"Upload File",
# "authenticity_token"=>"17FvBH+Z4Meni6WvsCdPByrrk751BV9mNklzKDAo2Vc=",
# "action"=>"do_import",
# "import_criteria"=>{
# "primary_language_name"=>"Creole",
# "secondary_language_name"=>"English"
# },
# "form"=>{
# "file"=>"traveling_haiti.txt"
# },
# "controller"=>"import"
# }