Breaking into Orkut with Mechanize
Posted by Corban Brook Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:05:28 GMT
Alternate title: Using Mechanize to Scrape Orkut for Love Letters from Lonely Brazilian Beauties and Translating their Wantings to English
Shout outs to Natai for the request.
In this tutorial we will use mechanize to login to Orkut, pull our scrap messages, we will assume the message is written in Portuguese and translate the message to English with Google Translate.
FUN!
Read more...Scraping Gmail with Mechanize and Hpricot
Posted by Corban Brook Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:48:54 GMT
This quick tutorial will show you how to use mechanize and hpricot to login to gmail and return a list of Unread emails.
Read more...Using RMagick with Flickr
Posted by Corban Brook Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:14:00 GMT
In my previous article, Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick, I showed how you can use RMagick to generate a lovely collage from a selection of random images. This tutorial will take it one step further and show you how to use RMagick with RFlickr to generate a collage from your own Flickr account or even a results from a flickr search.
4 random images found with the search term “Mazda MX-3” (my car)
TextMate-like Template Syntax for RADRails
Posted by Corban Brook Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:53:05 GMT
UPDATE: Dr Nic carried the torch and converted all of TextMates snippets to radrails templates. These templates will also be included in the next RADRails release 0.7.2 which will come out the week of November 20th. If you cant wait, read Dr Nic’s post now and get his updated templates.
Now TextMate users can migrate to RADRails even easier after their 30-day Trial period is over.
I have gone through most of the Rails commands in TextMate and made equivalent templates in RADRails. If anything it will make it easier for rails developers to move back and forth between the two most popular IDEs.
Download: 2006-09-18.RADRails-TextMate_Templates-v1.xml
(right click and Save As..)
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