Snipplr - inkdeep

(Ruby) Search for remote gems from command line and view detailed results in textmate

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:13:04 GMT

Do a remote search for all gems containing the word 'pdf' with detailed descriptions and view results in textmate requires `rubygems-mate` gem

(Ruby) Add directory to load path

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:51:14 GMT

(Ruby) Require directory of files

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:50:24 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby Opening, Reading, Writing, Closing Files

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:03:59 GMT

(Rails) Rails in groups of

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:09:03 GMT

(Ruby) stupid hash update experiments in ruby

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:34 GMT

(Ruby) stupid hash experiments in ruby

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:47:58 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby array collect with index

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:11 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby Coin Toss

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:44:41 GMT

(Ruby) Ruby caller experiments

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:35 GMT

(Ruby) stupid simple array shuffle in ruby

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:40:47 GMT

(Ruby) Copy object Attributes to another object in Ruby

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:39:47 GMT

(JavaScript) Javascript - Detecting Parameters

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:45:46 GMT

(JavaScript) Test for IE6 with YUI

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:35:21 GMT

(Ruby) Update older gem to now

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:11 GMT

For moving from older gem to newest if ' sudo gem update --system ' doesn't work

(JavaScript) Javascript Class with instance creation arguments

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:09:50 GMT

Namespace to avoid collision with other javascript variable/method names

(JavaScript) Console Helper for Firebug

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:44:03 GMT

This comes in handy when working in big objects and you need to see what's happening on the inside of an instance. I aliased 'console.log' to 'put' and wrapped it in a try/catch block that throws alerts if no console is available. Less typing - and mildly rubyish. I got the logAllMembers bit from a mailing list archived message - forget the author but props to them. Only alteration I made was to skip null members in the output.

(Bash) using mencoder to join avi files

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:32:34 GMT

simple way to join avi files on the command line (need to have mplayer installed)

(Bash) clear /tmp of files older than 3 days

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:29:11 GMT

Clear files in /tmp directory that are older than three days - terminal/cron this is a very simple example - could also remove by last access time, etc.

(Ruby) Recurse directory tree and count pages in all pdf files using pdf-reader gem

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:18:37 GMT

I had a directory tree with around 4000 pdf files and I needed a page count - so I semi-rolled this. I swiped the counter code from the gem README: http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/tree/master It could be more contained - as is I run it from irb: `>> require 'total_pages'` `>> pagetotal = TotalPages.new` `>> pagetotal.count('/my/pdf/directory')` I added rescue to print info on a file if it fails to open or doesn't conform to to the PDF specification and causes pdf-reader to raise an error - without this the script will quit - that sucks when you're trying to count pages in thousands of files.