Ruby and document indexing

I did some Ferret testing and the results were pretty fine. Check it out.

oy for another post

This time, scraping the web with ruby and hpricot. Did I told you before that this is not a Ruby blog ?

http://zenmachine.wordpress.com/scraping-with-hpricot-and-ruby/

imap rss feed

Here is a RSS feed generator for IMAP accounts using ruby and the excellent RubyRSS library. It may be changed to read from multiple accounts. Source code.

Also check RubyRSS website at http://www.rubyrss.com/ .

meet marvin

Marvin is a file manager for SciTE made in ruby and gtk2 I hacked to help me in a PHP project. It’s called marvin as a homage to a weird cat my mother has. Check the source code.

helping tools for scripting

Some tools I’ve been using to scripting.

• to edit programs: SciTE editor with autocomplete enabled. Go to the global options file and uncomment the parameter autocompleteword.automatic=1. It needs an api file which you must download from SciTe’s website (for C/PHP/PERL) or build (RUBY) with http://scite-tools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scripts/utils/gen_ruby_api.rb.

• to convert source code to html: source-highlight -s<ruby|php|perl> -fxhtml <sourcecode>

Ruby widget toolkits testing

A friend of mine gave me a netgear wifi router and I decided that would be fun to have a systray applet to check for connected stations. The basic parsing was easy, but then came the GUI part. The first idea was do it in a multi plataform fashion, and later on I just decided to do it with the most important toolkits (in general) that I found bindings for: GTK and WxWidgets.

Alto I dig WxWidgets, I found the GTK binding more mature and (I never thought I would say that) easier to use. I I really think GTK is counterproductive when programming in C (or worse, C++) for Linux, but thankfully GUI programming is not my daily job.

So that’s my first GUI app in Ruby. I kinda tried to follow code guidelines for each toolkit (when I could found them) and keep the same overall structure (separated dialogs, timer control for scraping the router’s info, etc).

If I had to do another GUI app in Ruby (which I’m planning, a SciTE project manager), I would use GTK and chill out about the multi-plataform-OS stuff. Usually these kind of scripts tend to be used only by who programmed them and as example to other programmers rather than morph into a full fledged project.

WxWidget version

GTK Version