In the midst of my Rails based Web development I was tasked with the creation of a simple, one page Web form. I knew it would be a snap to write given my background in PHP and the broad support for PHP in OS X but I decided to “teach myself” how I could do [...]
The “Rails” components of the website were completed in about 20 minutes and consist of nothing more than a form which provides the user a means to supply a date and returns an appropriate (some would argue) list of the deceased. After quite a bit of experimentation and refactoring I have refined the script which [...]
OK, need proof that I’m a nuby? How’s this for proof? #!/usr/bin/env ruby fp = “/Users/sjobs/data/enwiki-20061130-pages-articles.xml” page_start = /\ / page_end = /\<\/page\>/ has_persondata = /\{\{Persondata/ regex_name = /\|NAME=(.*)/ regex_alter_names = /\|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=(.*)/ regex_description = /\|SHORT DESCRIPTION=(.*)/ regex_page_title = /\(.*)\<\/title\>/ regex_page_id = /\(.*)\<\/id\>/ regex_date_birth = /\|DATE OF BIRTH=(.*)/ regex_place_birth = /\|PLACE OF BIRTH=(.*)/ regex_date_death = [...]
I became interested in hpricot while experimenting during the creation of a prospecting system for my employer. Driving home from work one day I hatched an idea for a website that would employ hpricot to pull its data from Wikipedia’s Persondata. Due to the extremely large size of the associated data file I soon determined [...]