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(Ruby) Ruby: Search Spotify API

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:04:01 GMT

Simple test showing how to make a request to Spotify's API.

(Ruby) Ruby: Parsing Blackberry Download Reports

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:46:26 GMT

The Blackberry AppWorld portal allows you to schedule reports which are delivered as CSV.zip files. Although the CSV file offers a lot of detail about operating system and date of download, most of the time I just want to know which users downloaded the app from which countries. So usually I choose "Country, then date", unpack the .zip and run this (verbose) ruby script.

(Ruby) Ruby: SMPTE Converter

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:09:28 GMT

If you need to do any sort of screen capturing using FFMPEG, you might need this one day

(Ruby) Ruby: CSV to XML (Version 2)

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:33:51 GMT

I use this code snippet all the time. It allows me to parse a CSV file and transform it into an XML file.

(Ruby) Ruby: Capturing Song Title information from an IceCast Server

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:26:41 GMT

IceCast server's sometimes offer meta-data information on a particular piece. Here's an example of a data scrape from Classical KUSC

(Ruby) Ruby: Importing CSV data into DB with ActiveRecord Validation

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:44:17 GMT

This script is a nice balance between validating data and speed.

(Ruby) Capistrano: MediaTemple

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:36:24 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby: State Abbreviations

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:16:58 GMT

Easy way to populate a drop-down menu

(Ruby) Ruby: Extend String Class to Capitalize Every Single Word

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:26:57 GMT

Don't forget to use require 'directory/name_of_class'

(Ruby) Ruby: Directory Class Methods

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:04:24 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby: Reading from Files + File Class Methods

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:45 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby: File Path Basics

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:13:25 GMT

Ruby provides a platform independent way of displaying file paths. Here are a few common ways to show absolute and relative paths.

(Ruby) Ruby: Parse XML to CSV

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:10:35 GMT

I had an XML file that I needed to convert to CSV. In order to make things easier for myself, I used a pipe | symbol instead of a comma so that there would be no parsing errors later. I also ended up writing the file to a Txt file and importing it as such to Microsoft Excel.

(Ruby) Ruby: How to use the Merge method within Ruby Blocks

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:49:53 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby: How to use the 5 main Find methods within Code Blocks

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:29:48 GMT

This shows how we can find objects inside code blocks (aka data sets).

(Ruby) Ruby: Multi-line comments

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:17:56 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby: Unescape a URLEncoded String

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:03:13 GMT

I needed a quick way to unescape a URL Encoded string. I found 2 chill ways

(Ruby) Installing the SQLite3 Database Interface for Ruby

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:42:43 GMT

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=552741

(Ruby) Rails: Force Migration

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:55:26 GMT

Suppose you already have a database with a table named candy and now you want to start using migrations. If you try to run a migration with a pre-existing table, Rails will error. So by placing :force => true, you are forcefully wiping the table. After you've performed your migration, you normally want to return the Boolean to false.

(Ruby) Mixing in a Module immediately after an objects Singleton class

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:58:38 GMT

There are two ways to insert a module above the objects singleton class but before the objects Class