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- The HTTParty has just begunNovember 26
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After releasing the new RubyURL API, I decided that it was time to look around at libraries to interact with it. I came across a new Ruby gem from John Nunemaker named, HTTParty, which aims to make it easy to talk to XML and JSON-based web services. Be sure to read John’s announcement of HTTParty.
So, I decided it might be fun to introduce more people to the gem by showing you all how to use it to talk to the new RubyURL API.
Install HTTParty
Before we get started, you’ll need to install the HTTParty gem with the following command:
~ : sudo gem install httparty Password: When you HTTParty, you must party hard! Successfully installed httparty-0.1.6 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for httparty-0.1.6... Installing RDoc documentation for httparty-0.1.6...Great! Now that we’re ready to party hard, let’s build something.
Talking to the RubyURL API
The RubyURL API currently supports both XML and JSON, which are each supported by HTTParty. The great thing about HTTParty is that all you need to do is include it in a class and you’re able to quickly talk to remote ser
- Lesson Learned: Git Ref NamingSeptember 19
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Our team has been working our way into the Git world. One of our big client projects is now 100% git while the other is still on Subversion for another month or so. (I’m getting by with git-svn, the gateway drug on that). We’ve had pretty much nothing but success with Git for quite some time, but recently this repository started to get chaotic, which has eaten up time… which isn’t conducive to productivity.
So, I wanted to share a quick lesson that we learned today after scratching our head for a while. It’s important that you avoid having a branch on a remote repository that shares the name of a tag in your local and/or remote repository.
I REPEAT.
It’s bad mojo to have a tag and branch share the same name. Things that you’d expect to just work... don’t. This was causing us to see warnings and errors like the following, which we weren’t really sure what to make of it.
“warning: refname ‘staging’ is ambiguous.
“error: src refspec staging matches more than one.”
This started about two weeks ago when we started a few new remote branches: staging and design. It seemed to be going okay but we managed to muck up things when we merged those two together and some of us were having success fetching/pulling/pushing to staging and others
- MySQL is just a toySeptember 11
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- Ubiquity meets RubyURLSeptember 2
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Alex Malinovich decided to take some time this afternoon to write a Ubiquity command for RubyURL using the new RubyURL API. You can take a look at Alex’s Ubiquity code for RubyURL. He’s taking advantage of the JSON support that I added to RubyURL this weekend and JQuery. Be sure to read Alex’s blog post, which includes a screencast! =)
Also! We added this to RubyURL so that if you have Ubiquity installed, you’ll be presented with the following the next time you visit: http://rubyurl.com.
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- Google Chrome: discussSeptember 1
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I’m sure that most of you heard the news that Google is releasing a new web browser named Chrome. Their comic for the announcement was very refreshing and entertaining read. Granted… nobody that I know has seen it (as of today)...
For me, I’m really interested in seeing what they’ve done to hopefully improve some of the short-comings of the user experience through their interaction design process. For example, tabs containing their own url/search fields sounds refreshing (I really dislike the hierarchy currently). Also, I’m really looking forward to their dashboard-like default page.
From a web development standpoint, it definitely raises questions about what we’ll be able to do in the coming year(s).
What are your initial thoughts on this? Discuss…
Update: Gary came across this amusing quote from a response by a representative at Microsoft.
“The browser landscape is highly competitive, but people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips … and, more than a