20070615 Extracting data with Hpricot

For those (few) of you which haven’t heard about it, Hpricot is a nice library for parsing HTML in ruby, created by the even nicer _whytheluckystiff, author of Poignant’s Guide to Ruby, Camping and other ruby gems (may you excuse the pun? it was impossible to avoid it). Since I saw one demonstration by Rob [...]

20070313 London Ruby Users Group brings you back to uni

After three failed attempts, I managed to go to yesterday’s lrug meeting. It was intended to be a kind of experimental collective code review, so people would contribute with pieces of code and get it dissected and improved collectively. There was an special obsession with Hashes, most of the code submissions were improvements and/or workarounds [...]

20070122 PHP will never have a (real) Rails-like framework

I know the title is harsh but it’s so true. At least it is according to nowadays php’s implementation of classes and objects, which do not permit to “reopen” and add or redefine new methods to an existing class definition, which is the basis upon Rails (and I presume lots more of applications and frameworks) [...]

20051116 Fighting against ruby, rails, gems, php and apache on mac os x (and maybe something else I forget)

Last time I did some tests with rubyonrails, I made it over a pc box. This time I decided to give another try on installing everything on my laptop, as it’s easier to start and stop ruby applications from my own console and not by running a VNC viewer and then accessing the windows command [...]