Posts Tagged ‘Ruby’

SEO Tools, my first Ruby on Rails application

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

So for the last two days I’ve completed my first RoR application that is actually used by somebody, my SEO colleagues to be more precise, their first wish was a script that would make it much easier to submit links to link directories, that and an article spinner.... Read More

Parsing PHP gettext strings with Ruby

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I just had the need to fetch all gettext strings from a whole project. Sure poEdit can normally do this but this project is using Smarty and {t}something to translate{/t}, poEdit can’t do the Smarty stuff so we need something custom.... Read More

A noob and Ruby on Rails 2

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Update: I just had to install the whole stack again, now apart from the gems the following is needed:
1.) Mysql drivers/libs/dev files, beats me which ones, I just installed them all in synaptic.
2.) OpenSSL libs/dev files, installed them too via synaptic.... Read More

Scraping and Converting Data with Hpricot and JSON in Ruby

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Did you ever wonder how Warren Buffet managed to get that rich? Pure luck my friend, the man was born with perfect timing, one year after the stock market crash of 1929, at the beginning of the great depression.... Read More

Converting Folder Tree using iconv with Ruby

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

I’ve just experienced one of the strangest problems ever. A PHP project was probably copied from a Swedish Windows machine to a Linux server, set to handle Swedish somehow. From the server it was then downloaded to a Mac that was probably running Swedish too, and from the Mac to my strictly English Windows installation running Wamp and XAMPP.... Read More

Managing escaping when indenting

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Another bug fix, phew, they do stack up when you really start using an application for real.... Read More

Calling Ruby scripts from Pico Lisp

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

I give up. There you have it, the confession. Too much basic stuff is lacking from Pico, as you might know we’ve covered both a way of matching a la PHP’s preg_match and JSON. I’ve realized however that I’m never gonna be finished creating a proper application doing it in 100% Pico.... Read More

Automatic multiple line comments

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I’ve recently had the opportunity to check out TextMate and it has a nice feature that lets you select some lines and automatically add # to the beginning of them in order to comment them out.... Read More

A Note on Regular Expressions

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

They’re a bitch :) ... Read More

wxRuby Editor - More bug fixes and Scintilla text slinging

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Squashing Bugs... Read More