About eight years ago I worked on my first major commercial software project. Before I worked as a freelancer and had mostly rather small and dull projects. This project however had a team of eight people plus management and it was surprisingly complex at times. One day we had to implement a feature which depended […]
Recently I encountered a file which mostly contained UTF-8 characters. I could read the file and even throw it at Nokogiri and there was no problem. When I wanted to preprocess the content of the file with gsub ruby raised this Exception: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) Now what to do? There aren’t many […]
Currently I’m writing a couple of munin plugins at work and for certain components I need to parse log files to get out the numbers so munin can draw its graphs. My particular task is to parse a Pound log file and generate several custom graphs out of it and so the examples in this […]
Thanks you “The Ruby Programming Language Book” and why the lucky stiff and his poignant guide to ruby for clueing me in. Again – consider this a note to myself or as practice. http://gist.github.com/84216
This is mainly an exercise for myself. Nothing new here. Just a place for me to keep all that in mind. http://gist.github.com/84205