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Parse webpage and save fetched images to a directory
I had a task for a programmer position which I failed. I am a newbie programmer and I accept that. The only problem is that employer never told me what the actual problem with the code is. So maybe ...
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Refactor an XML to JSON parser class
I used Nokogiri and a piece of ActiveSupport to parse an xml file from a given URL, format the data properly and return a JSON string. The script works as expected, so I'm only wondering if there are ...
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Converting KML/XML to Javascript
So, I have the boundaries of every states in the US, from the google map KML file.
This KML file is actually a XML file.
I'm converting this file to a JS file compatible with google map in order to ...
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How would one more elegantly parse data from XML using Ruby and Nokogiri?
I have a method that parses XML into an array of hashes.
Here is the original XML:
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Improving Rails feed parser
This is my feed parser method using feedzirra. It works, but I feel dirty because I can't figure out how to improve this code. Any suggestions?
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Extracting and mangling a parameter from a MySQL configuration file
Is there a better way of doing this?
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Ruby html href parser working slow
I wrote this simple HTML parser in Ruby.
Basically I have a folder that has files. Every file has crawled web pages. The only addition within these files is before the HTML content there is a page ...
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Is this the most efficient way to track word changes in a string?
I'm working on a writing platform and am using a modified version of the Levenshtein distance algorithm to track a writer's engagement with their writing. It tracks not only words added to their ...
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ruby notes scrubber search for specific characters [closed]
I am looking to making a not scrubber for my testing notes. I want to run a script that will read the entire file looking for special "tags" that I made in my notes, like @ ? (c) etc...
I then want to ...
