I wanted to set up a cronjob to backup my photos from a Windows computer to my linux server. To do so I simply set Windows to share the photos directory, then mounted the directory in linux. The rsync command seemed like the most logical way to sync the mounted directory with my backup directory. However, every piece of documentation I could find online showed examples of rsync communicating with an external server. I’m here to tell...

In order to be more user friendly and make our forms as easy as possible to fill out, we’ve decided to combine email and phone number fields within our forms to be a single field and let the user decide which method of contact they prefer to give us quickly and easily. The field is required because the whole purpose of the forms is to get contact information. Requiring the field in Rails is easy, simply add the following in the...