Category: ruby

  • How I became a web developer

    When I was 6 or 7 years old, my Grandparents bought me the most awesome gift ever… a NES. This set me down a path [...]

     

  • github and submodule weirdness

    github and submodule weirdness

    So I’m not a git or github master by any means. For the most part, I know enough commands to get by and to get [...]

     

  • flickr gadget for google wave

    So I got an invite to Google Wave last week. It was pretty fun to play around with the latest and greatest toy from google, [...]

     
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  • ruby: the scope of ARGV

    So it turns out that ARGV has global scope. This is completely fine 99% of the time, but when you’re trying to do something funky [...]

     

  • example of using hpricot, rexml, and kml

    I wrote a little Ruby script to parse some hot spring data and throw it into a kml file for display in google maps or [...]

     

  • rails: getting ip address from request

    This is useful if you want to log the ip address of the person using your rails app (except when the person is behind a [...]

     
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  • ruby: variable scope and passing blocks to methods

    Here’s the latest bit of Ruby that had me scratching my head for a minute… Say you have a method that takes a block of [...]

     

  • using negate in ruby regex

    In Ruby regular expressions, the ^ character is used to denote the beginning of the String. The the following… a = ‘abcde’ s.match(/^a/) …returns true/makes [...]

     

  • file locking in ruby using flock

    I was writing a bit a ruby code that used flock to write and read from a file using two different processes. I ran into [...]

     
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  • desert code camp

    The second Desert Code Camp is coming up this weekend. “Code Camp is a free, one-day event put on by the local Phoenix community to [...]

     
 
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