Alright, it’s done. I’ve moved rFeedParser and rchardet to GitHub. Check out the rFeedParser and rchardet pages at GitHub and clone them with these URLs:
git://github.com/jmhodges/rfeedparser.git git://github.com/jmhodges/rchardet.git
rFeedParser, of course, is a Ruby translation of the Universal Feed Parser in Python and passes 98.8% of its 3000+ unit tests. rchardet is a Ruby translation of chardet [...]
A thought: In the beginning, I wrote in Ruby because I liked using Ruby on Rails. But recently, I’m using Ruby on Rails because I like writing in Ruby.
I think it’s time to start looking at the options again.
I, like Sam, *really* want to play with CouchDb. But I’m a MacOSX box that I barely understand after 3 months of ownership.
Install MacPorts and run:
sudo port install erlang icu subversion
Add these two lines to your .bash_profile (or .profile if you’re running tcsh).
export ERLANG_BIN_DIR=/opt/local/bin/ export ERLANG_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/
Run those two commands in your current shell [...]
If you’ve needed the numeric HTTP status code from a connection created with either open-uri’s or rest-open-uri’s open method, you’ve probably noticed that OpenURI::HTTPError is raised on any thing other than a 2xx or 1xx status code and that the docs don’t really lay out how to get to the status code in that error. [...]
This post is huge but I have not the time to make it smaller. I’m so very tired.
A Quick Introduction
rFeedParser is a RSS/Atom feed parser. It is a translation of Mark Pilgrim’s feedparser from Python to Ruby. It behaves almost exactly the same and passes somewhere near 99% of the tests on a [...]
What was one of the things I wanted the most when I started writing rFeedParser?
This.