Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Scott Becker – How to generate CSV files in Rails
74.125.155.132 [Saving this since the original seems to have gone away.] Posted via web from crasch’s posterous
Entries Tagged as 'ruby'
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
GEEK: Running a ruby script via crontab
So, I’m trying to set up a ruby script that screenscrapes another website, writes the results to a local file, then rsyncs the file to another machine behind a firewall. This post details the problems I ran into while trying to get cron to run the ruby script and rsync to the remote host.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
GEEK: Notes on rubygem, pdb.set_trace()
If you want to use a newly installed rubygems, and you don’t want to require ‘rubygems’ for every program that uses a gem, you need to set the RUBYOPT environment variable. For example, if you’re using tcsh, you should put the following in your .tcshrc file: setenv RUBYOPT rubygems This will cause the rubygems module [...]
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
GEEK: PostgreSQL connectivity on Cygwin
I found Steve Litt’s Ruby Database Connectivity article quite helpful for configuring ruby access to PostgreSQL on Cygwin. However, I ran into a couple of errors while running the sample files which I detail below:
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
GEEK: ruby object methods
If you want a list of all a ruby object’s methods, try this: puts object.public_methods.sort
