Category Archives: Code Solutions

Ruby on Rails 5 Star Rating with Star Rating Widget

Description With countless rating systems out there I decided to go with JQuery’s Star Rating Widget Plugin for one of my pet sites: www.recisphere.com. The only problem with this is a complete lack of documentation on how to go about using it. I did a dirty hack but it seems to work great so I […]

Python Ctypes for Advanced Fortran and C++

Problem The cytpes library in python 2.6 and greater allows python to call fortran, c, and c++ functions from a specially compiled library. However the python cytpes library is limited in the datatypes that can be called from those libraries. This tutorial will show how to call derived data types from a fortran library and […]

Line Wrap With SyntaxHighlight

Problem: Syntax Highlighter has a problem where long lines of code use a horizontal scroll bar instead of using a line break or word wrap. Example Before: [bash wraplines=”false”]sql_query = SELECT page_id, page_title, page_namespace, page_is_redirect, old_id, old_text FROM vn_page, vn_revision, vn_text WHERE rev_id=page_latest AND old_id=rev_text_id[/bash] Solution: If using wordpress install a plugin called ‘SyntaxHighlighter Evolved’ and […]

Spinx.conf for mediawiki

Problem: [bash]ERROR: index ‘wiki_main’: sql_query: Table ‘db.page’ doesn’t exist (DSN=mysql://:***@localhost:3306/db)’[/bash] [bash]ERROR: index ‘wiki_incremental’: sql_query: Table ‘db.page’ doesn’t exist (DSN=mysql://:***@localhost:3306/db)[/bash] Solution: This comes because in the database the tables being queried have a different name. The name was changed at the creation of the database. An example is the normal table for wiki is ‘page’ but […]