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Posts Tagged ruby

Twitter opens the floodgates of FUD

TechCrunch is reporting on rumors that twitter is leaving Ruby on Rails. Of course the comment threads are covered by a heated debate by people either bashing RoR, suggesting their favorite language and platform as the ‘only possible solution’, or both. Nevermind that Friends For Sale, with 630k active daily users scales just fine on [...]


fix for TextMate Ruby tests broken with stack level too deep

If you experience problems running single unit tests in TextMate with Rails 2, it may be due to a bug. The problem has something to due with conflicting builder.rb instances in Rails and TextMate. The simplest and least intrusive fix is to add this to the top of your test_helper.rb $LOAD_PATH.reject! { |e| e.include? ‘TextMate’ [...]


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13 March 2008 @ 7pm

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rails, ruby

webcrawler bot detection

def self.bot_agent_list [ "panscient", "larbin", "dummy", "Teoma", "alexa", "froogle", "inktomi", "looksmart", "URL_Spider_SQL", "Firefly", "NationalDirectory", "Ask Jeeves", "TECNOSEEK", "InfoSeek", "WebFindBot", "crawler", "girafobot", "Scooter", "Baidu", "bot", "Google", "SiteUptime", "Slurp", "WordPress", "ZIBB", "ZyBorg", "msnbot", "check_http", "libwww-perl", "lwp-trivial", "wget", "curl", "SimplePie", "Python", "Feed", "HTTPClient", "Tumblr", "Spider", "sanszbot"] end Full source at http://pastie.org/191922


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