Tag: Ruby

RubyGems nuisances

Because I used it successfully before, I decided to use scrAPI to scrape the entries from the old Aihato guestbook. After preprocessing the HTML a bit, I finally got beyond an endless debugging sessions (which cumulated in me discovering a whole collection of nested <html> tags, which forbad any type of sensible parsing of the page). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on June 21, 2010, at 17:06 | 1 comment

PostgreSQL back-end for Ruby on Rails confusion

I just need to add a quick summary of what postgres back-end tool our Ruby on Rails application uses, and how we've configured it, because it's quite confusing... Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on August 28, 2008, at 16:08 | 5 comments

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments

Web scraping in Ruby: why I had to use scrAPI instead of WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot

Thursday evening: so, I had written myself a nice little script using Aaron Patterson's WWW::Mechanize and why's Hpricot to extract some data from a popular web-based airport directory. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on May 02, 2007, at 13:05 | 6 comments

Nested hashes derail Rails’ url_for helpers

While working on the Sicirec PostgreSQL database front-end today, I had to pass a lot of nested parameters to a link_to helper in Rails. Software being what it is, this didn't work. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on February 19, 2007, at 19:02 | No comments