Tag Archives: Ruby

Testing Your Apps.

By John | Published: August 23, 2008
I’ve been really putting off using Rspec. Unfortunately ( and like the vast majority or programmers out there) I have not been writing enough tests for my apps. When I did write them, they were using Rail’s built in Test::Unit library, which, many will say… sucks. Plus, honestly, they were half assed. So, [...]
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rDigg – Ruby on Rails Digg API plugin

By John | Published: August 14, 2008
I’ve sort of finished up rDigg today. It’s to the point I’m comfortable letting other people start to play with it anyways. As you’d expect, rDigg is a Digg API wrapper in the form of a Ruby on Rails plugin. It still needs some work, but works pretty well. For example: #create new Rdigg object digg [...]
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Simple Meta Programming in Ruby

By John | Published: August 10, 2008
Metaprogramming.  What a lovely buzz word.  I guess I’ve heard it enough and knew what the short definition is. Metaprogramming is code that writes code.  I think it is one of those things I just never thought about, even though I had used concepts and even written some before without realizing it until recently. Here [...]
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Super Simple Ruby Web Scraper

By John | Published: May 19, 2008
Alrighty folks. Quick walk though for scraping remote web data with Ruby. This is how I did it for my little web scraper I wrote on Saturday.. DISCLAIMER: Web Scraping is kind of a gray area.. don’t steal things that are copywritten and don’t be a jerk. Give credit where credit is due.. First [...]
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Integrating Google Maps in Your Rails 2.0 App.

By John | Published: January 5, 2008
NOTE:  THIS IS AN OLD POST AND THE INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE OUTDATED. YMMV In my first real post in a year, I thought I’d share some Ruby stuff I’ve recently done – Integrating your Rails 2.0 app with Google Maps. So, here is what we are aiming to accomplish: You are going to provide an address, say [...]
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