Dojo7 is the tech blog of Peter Hollows, a Ruby on Rails freelancer and web application designer. This blog is about sharing solutions and insights.
A simple approach to generating RSS feeds in Ruby on Rails. Our approach keeps your code DRY and uses a RESTful approach for minimum efforts. As a bonus, the W3C RSS validator has no complaints with the result. If you're wanting more than...
I’ve been hunting for something like Rails’ number_to_currency for Javascript that’d give me a delimited output with precision in cents.
Most of what I found didn't...
In New Zealand, telcos don’t expose their directories sensibly to the public, so if your script needs to look up numbers for a given name there is no RESTful API. Instead, these companies provide us the data in a challenging HTML format; this is because they are nice and want to give us a fun scripting project. Web-scraping means parsing ...
