Monthly Archives: October 2008

Using Ruby for command line web lookups

Common Problem You frequently have to look up customer information on the company website.  Firing up a web browser takes time and invites you to start dawdling away on facebook and such.  If only anyone in the company had bothered to write a decent webservice or command line utility to look up customer information. Find [...]
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How to get Ruby Gems to work behind the corporate firewall

This is just a note to remind me.  Ruby and ruby gems don’t automatically pick up on your proxy information in IE.  Instead, find out the proxy and set the following environment variables. in windows:  set http_proxy=http://user:password@internalcorporateproxy.com in cygwin/unix: export http_proxy http://user:password@internalcorporateproxy.com
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