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Moving from Mysql to Microsoft SQL Server in Ruby on Rails 25 May 2010 | 02:03 am
Recently one of our client asked us to make a shift from Mysql database to Microsoft SQL Server (Mssql) in a project where we have been developing in Ruby on Rails collecting online shopping data. We ...
UTF-8 and html screen scraping in Ruby on Rails 23 Sep 2009 | 04:18 am
Before I start, if you have any doubts or you are unaware about character sets (i.e. you are not familiar with words like utf-8, unicode etc), I would recommend you to read Joel's The Absolute Minimum...
Consume non rails-style REST API's 11 Mar 2008 | 10:17 pm
ActiveResource is a great concept which consumes rails-style REST API but unfortunately most of the REST API's are not rails-style. This means that very frequently you will end up modifying ActiveReso...
Active Youtube 13 Feb 2008 | 07:57 am
ActiveYoutube is a gem to access YouTube API using ActiveResource. This gem wraps code from our previous post on extending ActiveResource to access YouTube. There have been minor changes, which are : ...
Scrapi enhancements 31 Jan 2008 | 03:11 am
We have been using ruby library Scrapi quite a lot for HTML Scraping in QuarkRank and other projects. Most of the times, I want to extract/scrape specific information from a page and directly dump it ...
ActiveResource and YouTube 16 Jan 2008 | 01:49 am
This article is about consuming YouTube API in your Ruby/Rails project using ActiveResource. Moreover, this article is an example of how to extend ActiveResource to consume non rest-style API. Benefi...
Writing a web widget 8 Jan 2008 | 06:25 am
Web widgets are widely used across the Internet but still lacks good documentation. From online advertisement to videos to blogs, widgets are highly used. Some of the popular widgets being Google Adse...
Quarkshop : next-generation shopping 20 Dec 2007 | 07:56 am
QuarkShop is a next-generation shopping experience to find product of your choice based on opinions across the Internet. You give your preference and Quarkshop will fetch the best matched products for...
introducing QuarkRank 17 Dec 2007 | 11:32 pm
We're back to blogging after taking a leave for more than a month. We have been very busy developing QuarkRank, a summarized reviews repository. It is a result of more than 18 months of dedicated rese...
Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery 7 Nov 2007 | 04:37 am
<style> table.sample { border-width: 1px; border-spacing: 2px; border-style: hidden; border-color: gray; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: white; width:100%; } table.sample th { border-widt...
