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January 2010

.bat Script for Setting Windows Path Environment Variables

I had an install of ruby from source on my USB WD Passport drive. Using the ruby install on my portable drive on multiple windows machines requires updating the Path environment variable to reflect the USB drive letter assigned by that particular machine to my drive. The drive letter could be different each time, depending [...]

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Sinatra on Webfaction

So I got Sinatra running on my shared host, Webfaction. As I’ve said in past posts, I like working with Sinatra because it lets me write Ruby webapps without all the code required by larger libraries like Ruby on Rails. With Sinatra, I write more code and so it augments my Ruby learning and lets [...]

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posting data with curl from the command line

Before i forget, an easy way to test if you can connect to an external api is to use CURL on the command line. This nice as a sanity check/proof of concept to ensure you have the right token, proper field mappings, submitting the right data. This saves you from setting up a test form, [...]

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