So, in the not-too-distant future, I’m going to need to tie this app I just deployed into a third-party API that exposes data via XML. In the interest of familiarizing myself with working with XML output from non-ActiveResource sources in Rails, I decided to use a publicly-accessible resource many of you may be familiar with: The World of Warcraft Armory. Since my actual source API isn’t available yet, seems as good a choice as any. Plus, given the notorious unreliability of the armory, it also gave me a good chance to see how exception handling needs to be set up.
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Parsing the WoW Armory with Rails
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Feb 22, 2008
A little Subversion gotcha
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At the office, my development machine is (unfortunately) a Windows box. I was setting up Capistrano for an app I was about to deploy, and checked the deploy.rb, Capfile, and script/spin files into Subversion from my Windows machine. This led to an interesting little gotcha.
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Feb 12, 2008
Simple Model Search with Rails
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One of the first things I think that many new Rails developers set out to do is to find a way to handle basic search forms in a reusable way.
Inspired by Jamis Buck’s refactoring of a Report model and controller at The Rails Way, this is one I recently worked out for the first Rails application I’ve gotten to develop for my employer, a database that tracks AUP violations and other offenses by our customers.
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Feb 7, 2008
About
I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.