Coffee and Rails

open-uri and the blizzard armory

Posted at August 16, 2008 08:30

Using Ruby on Rails, here is how to get a properly formatted XML document returned instead of HTML.

require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot' # you may need to sudo gem install hpricot

class Toon < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :name... (read more)

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Firefox 3

Posted at June 25, 2008 11:11

Firefox 3 has been out for a while and there are some great reviews out there.  Less memory useage is one of its strongest points and for most developers, that is always a plus.

I installed Firefox 3 on my trusty laptop and I did notice that it started up a little faster than the 2.... (read more)

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Opera 9.5

Posted at June 12, 2008 09:37

Opera 9.5 is out. I used Opera 8 for a while as an alternative to IE / Safari. I then tried Firefox and I loved the features.

But for a while Firfox (2.x) has been slow. I tried safari (the mac native browser) and it seems faster, but it is not as secure. So I endured the Firefox sl... (read more)

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