Category Archives: ruby

Automatically creating . for Ruby Hashes

I recently had to so some testing of an in-memory OLE object, which also allowed persistance to an XML file. The structure of the two (in-memory and in-file) were similar enough for me to look at XMLSimple, which creates a … Continue reading

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Enhancing Streamlined Enumerations

Recently, I’ve been looking at the Streamlined framework. For those of you who don’t know, Streamlined is an Ajaxified Scaffold currently under development. The edge version shows promise and is stable enough for my personal use as an administration tool. … Continue reading

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Rails IDE – Komodo 4.1

I’m a great believer in free software, most of my systems are run using Apache, MySQL, Linux, and Ruby, as I’m sure quite a lot of you are running also. I’m also a great believer in the right tool for … Continue reading

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Faster approach to identifying duplicates in a Ruby array

Not mine, this one. Came from bshow here a = [1,1,5,5,2,3,99,54,54,3,7,54,54,3,19] a.inject({}) {|h,v| h[v]=h[v].to_i+1; h}.reject{|k,v| v==1}.keys.inspect # => [1, 3, 5, 54]

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Ruby Fnord Generator – Part Two

In Part 1, I took you through the beginnings of the Fnord generator up to the point we could create Fnords using random words and optional parts of speech. This gave us a class Fnord which contained the following functions. … Continue reading

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