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(Ruby) Find words adjacent to a word given by its index in a string - jatkins

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:52:55 GMT

(Ruby) Strip characters from between two delimiters - webonomic

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:00:58 GMT

This regular expression used in Ruby will extract the characters between single or multi-character delimiters. It helps when you have strange delimiters such as \":delimeter1: text I want to grab goes here :delimiter2:\"

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to run Cucumber features and generate reports - noah

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:45 GMT

Note that Rake is slower than just running `cucumber`

(Ruby) Text Wrapping with Regular Expressions - breakerjump

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:51 GMT

Hat tip: Allan Odgaard

(Ruby) Parse an XML document with REXML and print some of the text nodes - noah

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:50:22 GMT

Parses the XML file MY_FILE.xml, and prints the text from each record node's upload_list node, unless the upload_list node is empty.

(Ruby) Format strings like PRINT USING - Agent

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:54 GMT

This is an extension to Ruby's String class. Just put this code in a file and include it. This basically takes a string and adds literals and padding to it. For example, you can format a phone number with optional area code like this: "5445556747".using('(###) ###-####', '', true) => (544) 555-6747

(Ruby) Wrap Text - ttscoff

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:50:37 GMT

(Ruby) Random ASCII characters generator - ishikawa

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:44:02 GMT

This method generates random (and printable) ascii characters.