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Fedora/SOAP and Ruby

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

I’ve been playing around getting ruby to talk to the fedora framework for building digital repositories. Fedora makes its api available by different sets of SOAP services, defined in WSDL files. What follows is a brief howto on getting Ruby to talk to the API-A and API-M To get basic API-A and API-M clients working [...]

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oai/sru and ruby

Thursday, April 20, 2006

biblio:~/Projects/ruby-oai ed$ ruby test.rb Loaded suite test Started ………. Finished in 171.247595 seconds. 10 tests, 280 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors So after about 4 hours of hacking I’ve got ruby-oai which is a OAI-PMH client library for ruby. Included is a test suite that puts all 6 oai-pmh verbs through their paces using OAI-PMH [...]

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xbib in subversion

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Bruce D’Arcus has started putting his XBib project into subversion at sourceforge. The code is going to include ruby, python and styling libraries. I didn’t realize that sourceforge was offering up svn now…which is a welcome change. I want to set aside some time to get familiar with Bruce’s model and code.

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testing, testing, is this thing on?

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Marcel Molina on testing in Rails

Begins: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 at 6:30 PM

Ends: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 at 10:00 PM

Location:

Thoughtworks

651 W. Washington Blvd

Chicago, IL 60661

USA

Link: meetup page

I’m looking forward to attending this talk by Marcel Molina of 37Signals on testing in Rails. One of the things that has impressed me the most about Rails so far is how test stubs are automatically written out for you when you generate classes. I also really like how fixtures can load test data for each test…and the custom assertions rock. Anyhow, hopefully I will find the time to attend this the week before I head out to Oregon.

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good fences and the frankenweb

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Ian Bicking has some interesting notes about competing web development technologies–mainly in response to some posts from Ivan Krystic. The discussion is definitely recommended, especially if you find yourself looking at web application frameworks for Python and Ruby. I found the pivot point of the discussion to be around a new term (for me) — [...]

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selenium/ruby sprint

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

In case you missed it, or aren’t subscribed the chicago-ruby group is getting together for a Selenium demo/sprint session on Dec 13th. I’ve seen Selenium demo’d before at a chipy meeting, and look forward to a more in depth look since several of my friends really like this testing tool. I think Jason is particularly [...]

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snakes and rubies

Sunday, December 4, 2005

I managed to attend Snakes and Rubies yesterday where Adrian Holovaty and David Heinemeier Hansson talked about their respective web frameworks: Django and Rails. The event started at 2PM and went to 6:30PM or so, and was attended by over 100 people! I watched this little event take shape out of the mists of the [...]

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BBC Catalogue’s Search

Saturday, November 26, 2005

I did end up hearing back from Matt Biddulph about the search technology that he’s using with RubyOnRails to build the BBC Programme Catalogue. The core of the search is nothing more than mysql 4.1′s fulltext indexer. I used to think very poorly of it until I discovered how to turn off its automatic stoplist [...]

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ruby-chicago

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Last night I took the train into ThoughtWorks to check out the Chicago Area Ruby Group meeting. There wasn’t a planned talk, so I wasn’t sure what to expect (apart from getting a chance to chat with Jason and Chris). One thing I definitely didn’t expect was seeing close to 30 people there. The room [...]

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ruby-zoom

Friday, October 7, 2005

If you ever need to do z39.50 from ruby and have successfully built and installed ruby-zoom only to see: biblio:~ ed$ irb irb(main):001:0> require ‘zoom’ dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol not found: _ZOOM_connection_search Referenced from: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/zoom.bundle Expected in: flat namespace or a similar error about missing symbols…never fear! The YAZ toolkit doesn’t build a shared [...]

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