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Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby - igvita.com

A liberal RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby - may be hard to believe, but it’s true. On top of that, it is also capable of serving static files, has a templating engine, and accepts an arbitrary number and types of RSS feeds - talk about squeezing functionality out of every line!

Brilliant!

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How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby

Welcome to the home page of How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby, by Elizabeth Wiethoff.

How To Think… is a free book available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Readers are free to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

This looks really nice...

vemod.net - Feedalizer

Feedalizer is a small Ruby library that glues together the standard library’s RSS library with Hpricot in order to make it easy to transform web pages into RSS feeds. If you ask me, it makes it too easy.

This flew through my aggregator earlier this morning but I did not bookmark it. Here it is after a brief google search.

SimpleLog. A simple (and free!) Ruby on Rails weblog application.

This is a simple Ruby on Rails weblog application with support for tagging, archiving and quick-search. It features a simple admin section with authentication and a focus on writing over all else. The app is therefore limited by default. You won't find a link list or del.icio.us integration or any of that. If you're looking for something more robust (read: bloated), check out Typo.

Things are getting exciting with the Camping and Ruby... Now add a nascent clone of Amazon's S3 service and roll your own was never more fun.

Park Place, the Amazon-S3 clone

So, it's really not much, but it does handle most things, and it's decent enough... It's Park Place, a clone of Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service.) It's written entirely in Ruby, with heaps of help from the Camping 4k web framework. Oh, and no SOAP support to speak of.

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here's a nice explanation of how to create a functional spreadsheet type object in ruby.

The final piece of the puzzle is the actual spread sheet object. Its only real function is to act as a lookup container for the Cell objects. My implementation uses a cheesy "convert two integers to a string key" technique. It works ok, but it bothers me.

InstantRailsWiki: Instant Rails

Here is the site for the one click installer for Ruby... Glad to see it is this simple for windows users to try it out... Claims to work in one directory with no changes to your system configuration.

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. See the Release Notes for a complete list of what is included.

Look at what you get!

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.

DownloadStable - typo - Trac
If you're looking for a blogging app to contend with wordpress, movable type etc. Typo is a serious contender.
typo.tgz
typo.zip

• Static Caching, your typo blog will now serve thousands of pages per second with ease. All the active elements of the frontend were moved into JavaScript?
• First official release with the new Azure theme
• Multiple theme support, please create your own!
• Newly designed admin interface
• Textile, Markdown and Smartypants support, all bundled
• Enhanced spam protection
• Quick post functionality
• Support for multiple users posting to the same blog
• Powerful sidebar management with drag and drop goodness
• Monthly archives
• Multiple syndication support built in for 43things, del.icio.us, Flickr, upcoming.org, tadalist, technorati, 43places and much more.
• Ajax'ed out the wazoo
• Edit/nuke comments while reading them in the frontend ( as admin )
• Converters for most major blog software including import from RSS feeds.

Ruby on Rails Podcast
yay! a reason to carry an ipod.

The Rails podcast is a super-agile way for you to get the inside scoop on the Rails community.

On the show we will delve deep into the warped psyches of the members of the Rails core team. We'll talk about news related to Rails and the web devlopment communities in general. We'll talk about tips and tricks you can use to to write better Rails applications, and become a better person.

:: Al Abut ::: Ruby Self-Tutorial, Day 1 of 21: Getting Started With Ruby
Load into your reader and follow along for the next three weeks while Al covers everything you need to know about starting Ruby programming.

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.c( whytheluckystiff )o. -- Wearing Ruby Slippers To Work
nice short code demonstrates seraching files for a pattern.

Dir['**/*.php'].each do |path|
File.open( path ) do |f|
f.grep( /search_string/ ) do |line|
puts path, ':', line
end
end
end