Category Archives: Ruby
Writing a jQuery plugin with coffeescript
Coffescript saves my day, as I don’t like javascript and the coffeescript syntax is more python/ruby based. Coffeescript itself compiles to javascript. It is very easy to learn, nevertheless it was not easy to create the basic code to register … Continue reading
Uninstall all local ruby gems
This ruby script might be useful for people like me who just started using bundler to manage the gems of their webapp and all others, which want to clean up their gems. Caution: all installed gems are removed from rubygems! … Continue reading
Rake & FTP
Rake is a build tool for ruby, similar to C’s make or Java’s ant/maven. Basically you can define a lot of tasks, which can be executed, may have prerequisites and can do a lot boring tasks, from file operations to … Continue reading
Ruby web scraping
I want to share my recent experience with ruby web scraping and RSS. Often I found myself checking the comments for my game iBox3D using http://www.appcomments.com. But the problem is that you can only display the comments by country and … Continue reading
Bowline on Windows with different Titanium Version
This stuff was tested on Vista but should also work on XP. Two problems are solved in this article: Install bowline on another OS then it was developed on Run bowline with another version of Titanium Desktop then it was … Continue reading
Watir on Shoes
Yesterday evening I tried to create a prototype using Ruby which should have a simple GUI to insert test data for Watir testscripts. Shoes is a Ruby library/framework for drawing 2D and web-like UIs which can be compiled into native … Continue reading
Ruby on Windows: OLE automation for Outlook – Shared calendars
Ruby has a nice library for OLE automation, win32ole. I used this library to get appointments from shared outlook (exchange) calendars. The scripts are testen on Windows Vista with Outlook 2003. This is how it works: outlook_reader.rb require ‘win32ole’ outlook … Continue reading
Ruby & SAP Services (SOA)
I recently added two links to my blog. They both lead to articles I wrote about Ruby (on Rails) and SAP Services. Warning: This was before Rails 2.0 was released. Ruby on Rails make cool SAP MashUps possible. How-to: Consume … Continue reading