Assembla to start charging for all private services

Oct 19th, 2008

well I guess it had to happen sooner or later - Assembla to start charging for all private services

they do offer a great service and the fact that it has been free up until now has been really great!
I can understand why they need to start charging and it still seems very reasonable,
but it would be nicer if it was based purely on disk space instead of per project

read more here

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C. G. Brown

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C. G. Brown

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ActionView::TemplateError uninitialized constant

Oct 18th, 2008

ActionView::TemplateError (uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::CompiledTemplates::Literals) on line #10 of …

I just made a silly mistake which was generating this error; I have a Literals class in my Ruby on Rails application that has some strings stored as constants, everything was working great until I put this code on a server (Linux) didn’t have any issues on the mac or windows machines before deploying

turned out to be so simple…
I originally named the file Literals.rb which defined the class Literals

the fix: rename Literals.rb to literals.rb

- doh!

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Anonymous

Thanks a lot for this hint. I named a class KursTeilnahme (capital T) and got the same error. For Kursteilnahme everything is okay.

Running Scripts on windows cscript vs wscript

Oct 16th, 2008

what’s the difference between cscript and wscript output?

wscript will send output to dialog boxes, cscript will send it to the console (where I want it)

GE Microwaves are junk

Oct 16th, 2008

my GE Microwave worked great until the one year warranty was up, then it developed this really cool feature where the fan will not turn off - unless…

usually if I have the fan on and want to turn it off, I setting it to off (but it stays on) and then do a quick cook of 2 minutes, 8 out of 10 times this will turn off the fan when it finishes, other times it will turn if I do the 2 minute quick cook again - but that doesn’t always work either…

sometimes I have to unplug the thing to turn off the fan, out of curiosity I googled ‘GE Microwave fan’ and came across this youtube video that pretty much tells the tale

Don’t you just love quality products…

scRUBYt

Sep 27th, 2008

I needed to do some screen scrapping using Ruby, so after a few google searches I came across this post which looked very promising, after a quick scan through the comments scRUBYt looked even better.

stumbling block #1: well it did take me a bit to get it installed, turns out it is currently (0.3.4) hard-wired to use RubyInline 3.6.3, but I had RubyInLine 3.7.0 installed, this post gives the details to work around this issue, otherwise you will get an error something like Gem::Exception: can’t activate RubyInline (= 3.6.3), already activated RubyInline-3.7.0].

stumbling block #2: trying the simple example for scrapping google here I got the following error - can’t convert Hash into String. So I tried commenting out some of the code, just limiting it to hit the submit button, the result - no error but no output either? after looking around on the scRUBYt forums turns out scRUBYt logging is not on by default, so turn it on… Scrubyt.logger = Scrubyt::Logger.new and run the code again [ERROR] No extractor defined, exiting… ok, so un-comment the code and run it again now that I have the logging on, same error, I am obviously doing something wrong? try a couple other code samples, more fun error messages - The error occurred while evaluating nil.example_type.

Well it turns out I was jumping ahead because I was calling this code from inside a Rake task. After moving the code into a regular ruby file and calling it using ruby instead of rake everything works just great! I did not look into why this code is failing from inside the rake task but I am guessing there is some conflict with the libraries? an exercise for another day…

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vinay

hi,

i am using scrubyt, and below is my code to scap

google.

Scrubyt.logger = Scrubyt::Logger.new
google_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
#Perform the action(s)
fetch 'http://www.google.com/'
fill_textfield 'q', 'ruby'
submit
#Construct the wrapper
#
link "//div[3]/div/ol/li" do

head "/h3[@class='r']"
des "/div[@class='s']"

end
next_page "Next", :limit => 2
end

and this wil output some thing like this

# Ruby Programming Language
# A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Site includes news, downloads, documentation, …www.ruby-lang.org/ - 12k - Cached - Similar pagesDownloadsDocumentationin Twenty MinutesWhat's RubyDownload RubyLibrariesAbout RubySecurityMore results from ruby-lang.org »
# Ruby (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
# Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. …en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language) - 118k - Cached - Similar pages

since div class ='s' has text and some child nodes. I m getting all text of div class ='s' as well as its chlid nodes.

how to filter this( i dont want child node's text). Can any body help in this. What procedure i have to follow.

Buy.com and Google checkout doesn’t work

Aug 24th, 2008

Buy.com and Google checkout doesn’t work - I don’t think I’ll be using either product going forward.

I select 3 items, each with free shipping, select check out, select Google Checkout and I am presented with shipping costs none of which says ‘Free’

I’ve used Google checkout a few times before without issue and I’ve ordered from buy.com before without issue, but after wasting my time with ‘false advertising’ - no more

I guess I’ll go order my stuff from Amazon instead.

Medina Grand Harbourside Sydney Australia

Aug 2nd, 2008

Medina Grand Harbourside Sydney Australia

55 Shelley St, King Street Wharf, Sydney NSW 2000

http://www.medina.com.au

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Great place to stay, we didn’t get a harbour view but it was very pleasant, full kitchen, in room washer and dryer - it was not cheap but no accommodation in Sydney is?