Ruby

So you tried rvm install 1.9.3 and that fails with a cryptic ANSI C-conforming const and volatile are mandatory… Well, here is how I solved it: ...

Apparently blinklist doesn’t export bookmarks to JSON format any longer and delicious has changed authentication scheme for its delicious API for new accounts (now it forces new users to use the OAuth / Yahoo ID). So the solutions described in this old post of mine doesn’t work. So given the current state of affairs the only way to get your bookmarks out of Blinklist is CSV (actually tab-separated) and the only easy way to import them to delicious is to use the HTML import. So we need a way to transforms Blinklist’s CSV to HTML bookmark file format. So I created this ruby scripts that takes bookmark.csv and generates bookmarks.html that you can import to delicious. ...

I tried to use the delicious online import tool from Evernote and I have to say that I’m not satisfied with it. It’s limited to 1000 tags (that’s due to important performance issues in Evernote when the number of tags is big) and if you don’t import the tags the tag information is lost. I was expecting that it will add the delicious tags and link notes as body text in the Evernote note but they don’t. So I decided to do my own import to preserve that information. ...

UPDATE: It seems that Blinklist’s JSON export doesn’t work any more, and delicious now requires OAuth authentication for new accounts (which rubilicious doesn’t support). So I created another script to transform Blinklist’s CSV format to HTML bookmark format which you can import to delicious. It’s done. I was suffering constant problems with BlinkList and I decided to move to del.icio.us. I also decided to rescue the old powermarks 3.5 bookmarks from the oblivion and import them to del.icio.us too. ...

I’ve created a ruby script to merge the content of a TikiWiki into another one. This script will read the tiki_pages, tiki_history and tiki_links tables from the MySQL backend of the source TikiWiki and import the contents into the destination TikiWiki. The script is ‘safe’, meaning that it will not overwrite any page if it already exists in the destination. The history of the page will be merged as well if the page exists at the destination. The script doesn’t work with page attachments yet. ...

After struggling with Netbeans 6.0 Ruby a little bit I finally found why my puts statement are not working properly. It’s due to the following reported bug.(Vote for this bug!!) Also noted in the RubyTodo page from Netbeans wiki. This problem appears when using native ruby with netbeans instead of jruby. My workaround is using log4r instead for print statements. UPDATE: It has been fixed in the latest version of the ruby module. I had to download the prebuilt ruby cluster from http://deadlock.nbextras.org/hudson/job/ruby/ and install it using the following instructions because the ruby module version found in the update center was not fresh enough but today I checked again and version 0.39 is available from the Update Center as well.

Interesting post from Sam Ruby explaining how to make your blog or website OpenID-enabled.