Tag Archives: ruby

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October 20, 2007

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So, after reviewing over 50 beers on BeerAdvocate, I’ve come to the conclusion that them not having an RSS or Atom feed of my most recent reviews available is stupid. So, I decided to make my own by scraping their HTML today. I started off by pumping some random code into irb that included Hpricot and Builder. Ruby rocks for doing stuff like this.

New Mephisto Post Pinger List

October 6, 2007

Today I found a nice ping list for WordPress. I decided to put it into my copy of the Mephisto Post Pinger plugin. I’m not sure if it works yet, but this post will give it a good test.

Site5′s 5 dollar hosting deal gets better again

September 2, 2007

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Flash Video Player for Mephisto

August 13, 2007

So I made this awesome filter for Mephisto that allows you to easily embed flash videos in your post. May require tweaking if using a non-standard URL root. It’s as simple as this: <macro:flash>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Or, you can make it complicated: <macro:flash width=”640″ height=”480″>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Which ends up like this: Installation Install it from your mephisto directory: ./script/plugin install -x https://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/code/rails/mephisto/filtered_column_flash_video Voila! Firebreathing!

Mephisto Post Pinging Improvement

August 11, 2007

So, the post pinger plugin was pretty awesome, but it was pinging RubyCorner and Rubylicious when it shouldn’t have. I made it tag-based so it checks a category of feed URL and decides whether the tag matches the category. Right now, I’ve only implemented it for the ruby tag since that’s all I should need for these two services. ArticlePingObserver::SERVICES = [ { :url => "http://rpc.pingomatic.com/", :type => :xmlrpc }, { :url => "http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm", :type => :rest }, { :url [...]

PL/Ruby on CentOS 5

August 1, 2007

I had some trouble compiling PL/Ruby for PostgreSQL today on Modzer0. I solved it with some clever extconf.rb switches: ruby extconf.rb –with-pgsql-include=/usr/include/pgsql/ –with-pgsql-version=81 Now I avoid the problems I was having before: [root@modzer0 plruby-0.5.1]# make make[1]: Entering directory #… In function ‘perm_fmgr_info’:plruby.c:116: error: ‘TopMemoryContext’ undeclared (first use in this function) plruby.c:116: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once plruby.c:116: error: for each function it appears in.) plruby.c: In function ‘plruby_call_handler’: plruby.c:706: warning: unused variable ‘result’ plruby.c: In function ‘pl_compile’: [...]

Automagic blending of wallpapers using RMagick

July 24, 2007

I wanted a program that let me blend random wallpapers from a directory together and set them every minute with increasing opacity on one image, and then to select a new random image and repeat the process. I did this using RMagick and some Ruby. Make the following tree: ~/.wallmold/ current.yml Fill current.yml with this: — file2: someimage wallpaperdir: wallpaper directory dissolution: 0.1 file1: anotherimage Replacing the image names and directory with the proper stuffs, full path on directory and [...]

Ubuntu hides gems from you!

May 19, 2007

You might think Ubuntu would put its gems someplace normal, such as /usr/lib/ruby/gems… Wrong. It puts them in /var/lib/gems, which explains why the cheat gem doesn’t work when installed. Now I need to add /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin to my $PATH.

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May 16, 2007

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