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https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-and-jenkins · 1 Mar 2013
I was trying to integrate my Cucumber and RSpec tests with Jenkins earlier this week and came across a bunch of character encoding errors. It took me a while to figure out the problem, essentially Jenkins loads a session without all your usual environment...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/mini-magic-apache-passenger · 23 Jan 2013
A note out there to anyone else having the same problem as me: If you're trying to use mini_magick in a ruby application being run via Passenger on Mac OS X Mountain Lion's Apache2, when you've installed imagemagick via Homebrew - _mouthful_ - then you ma...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/pottymouth · 24 Jun 2010
I had some time to kill on a lazy summer's day and I noticed that splendid chap Max, had posed a question to the lazy web: > Is there a tool for measuring profanity in code-bases? If not, can someone write it and call it "pottymouth"? Ta. So I did. If y...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/blinkers · 10 May 2010
!A screenshot of the Facebook homepage. Instead of the newsfeed there is text saying "You've got blinkers on. Now… get back to work JP! I built Blinkers, a little greasemonkey script/Firefox extension that will prevent you from seeing your own Facebook ...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/thimblr · 12 Apr 2010
{{< vimeo 10866898 >}} I've released Thimblr — a tool to speed up your Tumblr theme development. Its a Ruby gem, so it's very simple to install, with gem install Thimblr, once that's done you just need to run thimblr, as a binary is installed for you wi...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/its-been-a-while · 15 Nov 2009
Well, its been a few months since I posted last - the genuine joy of interesting/difficult work in my final year as a Physics undergrad - but there's a fair amount I should probably put up here for posterity: - I've become very interested in Playdar - an ...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/slypis-out-in-the-wild · 24 May 2009
I get really frustrated when websites don't have APIs. I know its kinda mean to screen scrape, and potentially prevented by ToCs etc, but I built this anyway. I have finals exams to revise for and not enough to procrastinate with! So, what is all this Sly...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-dlc-on-github · 5 May 2009
github.com Ruby-DLC is now available on github, and consequently as a gem! You can install with[^1]: There’s a gist explaining how to use the library and the rdoc documentation is still available on my project page. Please file an issue if you have any...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/porting-to-ruby · 5 May 2009
I had some time to kill today, so I rewrote the DLC api in Ruby. If you use JDownloader you’ll know how useful the DLCs are, essentially they allow you to contain all the links from a variety of online hosting sources in one place with any passwords tha...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/campus-bot · 29 Apr 2009
I’m building a twitterbot to answer questions about things happening on my university campus. Should be fun, I’ve decided to use Ruby and Active Record as a foundation :) Might be a few days before anything appears on github, I’ve got a few exams in...