If you’re doing local Rails development and are attempting to setup a database using MySQL (specifically, MySQL2) and you keep getting:
rake aborted! uninitialized constant Mysql2
Here’s what I did to fix the problem:
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Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
If you’re doing local Rails development and are attempting to setup a database using MySQL (specifically, MySQL2) and you keep getting:
rake aborted! uninitialized constant Mysql2
Here’s what I did to fix the problem:
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A number of good things from around the web this week:
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Some good things this week on URL design, jQuery documents, and JavaScript namespacing…
I’ve recently begun working on a PHP-based project and wanted to introduce unit testing into the mix to cover some of the core code.
On my local development environment, I’m running an WAMP stack (specifically with XAMPP) and was looking for a solid unit test framework for PHP. Continue reading
This week has been one of those weeks.
Not much in the way of bookmarking, but there are a few things worth sharing…
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