Tag Archives: Ruby
The Magic Ruby vs the Url of Excel: a short story with long code
Once there was a hacker who needed to rescue a beautiful princess from her prison on a creaking ship moored in the middle of the sky. He made it onto the noisy old ship, slipped past the guards and tiptoed down the swaying halls to the room where she wept, chained to an excel spreadsheet.
LibraryDroid tracks your books
Here’s me: I have an android phone, I can program, I use LibraryThing for tracking my books. Here’s how those things come together.
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 [...]
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
Recent Nerdery
I drew my whole apartment on google sketchup in order to settle a discussion with my partner Sam over where we should move some chairs and tables. Sadly, it did not help. Due to a nasty twitter post, I had to write up rot13 in ruby – which is of course hot. #ruby on rot13 [...]
The beauty of Ruby’s array subtraction operator
Today I had to a set of email addresses, one per line, from which I had to remove the addresses of folks that said “Don’t email me.” Those emails were in a separate file, one address per line. I figured I’d have to do this again, so I wrote a ruby script to automate it. [...]
Automated Virtue