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Post to WordPress with Ruby – update
A while back I wrote a post on using ruby to post content to a WordPress blog. It has been getting a steady stream of traffic since it was posted, so it’s obvious that people are into that kinda thing. … Continue reading
Simple yet efficient XML Sitemap generator for Rails Apps
Google tells us that every website should have an XML sitemap attached to it, that gives Search Engines meaningful information about its content. The XML Sitemap specification is fairly straightforward and easy to implement, and there are a couple of … Continue reading
Ruby capitalization for foreign people
If you are building apps in an accented and/or non latin character language, you have probably bumped into the old ‘capitalization doesn’t work for my string’ spiel. The built-in Ruby String#capitalize method only works on latin strings, and will return the input … Continue reading
Ruby web crawling with anemone
I recently bumped into Anemone, a site-crawling gem written by Chris Kite. We at Humbucker have our own high-performance crawlers written in various languages and geared towards different objectives, but Chris’ solution definitely offers an easy to setup and use … Continue reading
Rails Permalinks for Foreign People
This world is latin-centric in many ways. Politics aside, I have come across a recurring problem as a developer, as I find myself using new technologies to build internationalized stuff. Every time I create a CMS in any framework, I … Continue reading
Google Search API for Shopping
Google has recently launched a new API for its merchant product data, that can be used publicly by developers, allowing them to search and retrieve product information (like those appearing in Google Product Search and Product Ads). Another interesting fact … Continue reading
