Tag: ruby

Check Your Services with Ruby

I just got my Pickaxe v2 book in the mail today and have already put it to good use writing a script to check that the services for a host are up and responding. It uses many of the libraries included with Ruby but also another library ‘net-ping’ which you can get with a gem …

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Ruby and Rails Jobs

Just in case someone has missed it there is a website that has a list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails job postings. I have been tracking it since it started and have noticed a surge in posting recently. Eric Davis

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Get a text backup of your Typo

After using Typo for some time now, I wanted a raw backup of my many posts. So I used some Ruby to extract of that information. First I wanted a raw text file of my content. $ script/runner -e production "Content.find(:all, :conditions => 'type = \"Article\"'). \ each {|i| puts '##########'; puts i.title; puts ''; …

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