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I just started using Mechanize, and started using Ruby about thirty seconds before that, but one of the sites I''m scraping does a redirect on form submission to a badly-formed relative URL: index.cfm?action=bing&bang=boom=1|a=|b=|c= (etc.) Interestingly, Mechanize 0.6.2 handled this OK, but in 0.6.3 this causes a URI::InvalidURIError exception from URI.parse() in to_absolute_uri

Not filing this as a bug, but simply as confusion. In the mongrel.rb, you have a comment that says this about the self.escape method: # Performs URI escaping so that you can construct proper # query strings faster. Use this rather than the cgi.rb # version since it''s faster. (Stolen from Camping). def self.escape(s) s.to_s.gsub(/([^ a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)/n) {

I'm trying to write a gsub() call that takes a string and escapes all the unescaped quote marks in it. So the string \" would be left unchanged, but \\" would be changed to \\\" because the double backslash doesn't act as an escape for the quote, the first just escapes the second. I have the usual problems of writing regular expressions involving backslashes which

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) str = ''\&123'' puts "abc".gsub("b", str) puts "abc".gsub("b", "#{str}") puts "abc".gsub("b", str.to_s) puts "abc".gsub("b", ''\&123'') puts "abc".gsub("b", "\&123") >ruby test.rb ab123c

Don''t know why, but cant seem to get this to work for me. I have a phone number field for an addressbook. In the addressbook model I have a before_update declaration that says the following: I''d like to be able to remove all special characters (just numbers please), but this doesn''t want to work for me. before_update :format_phone def format_phone self.phone =

Thank you Jim, The code did assist me to get the what I needed. Also, I learnt that there are different types of dashes (en-dash/em-dash/hyphen) as explained on this site : http://www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/ I achieved it by executing below command after going through this page on stackoverflow:

SUMMARY: -------- I tried to identify the general and root causes for these problems with 1.9, by taking into account non-utf encoding, current patches, comments and ideas. I used ticket #2188 as base for explanations. This is a long read. I wanted to include all the relevant information in one place. I also included information about related tickets in LH and their status. I decided that adding

I am recoding some data. Many values that should be 1.5 are recorded as 1-2. Some example data and my solution is below. I am curious about better approaches or any other suggestions. Thanks! # example input data myData <- read.table(textConnection("id, v1, v2, v3 a,1,2,3 b,1-2,,3-4 c,,3,4"),header=TRUE,sep=",") closeAllConnections() # the first column is IDs so remove

hello. This code is abort with Mechanize 0.6.4 . ---------------------------- # sample.rb require "rubygems" require "mechanize" agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias=''Windows Mozilla'' # top page of wikipedia for japanese agent.get("http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8")

I have a link: <%= link_to ''delete'', :action => ''destroy'', :id => u(string_id) %> Helper method ''u()'' can encode a string to URL encoding, but I don''t know which method can decode it? I want to used in controller. I have not seen it in Rails''s document. Thanks, - Li Jie

require ''rubygems'' require ''hpricot'' require ''open-uri'' doc = Hpricot(open("http://graph.facebook.com/226723089703")) @doc = doc.to_s.gsub(/"id.+?likes":/,"").gsub("{","").gsub("}","") puts @doc OR require ''rubygems''

Mechanize is great! It''s better than anything I was expecting to be out there, and the syntax is really nice. I had a bit of a problem though -- following URLs with commas. The code in to_absolute_uri works great for spaces, but some pages I was working on had URLs with unescaped commas that URI rejected when I tried to click() on them. So I changed the first statement in

Hi guys, it''s me again, I want to come up with the following url: www.mysite.com/webpage?myid=1 I keep coming up with the following url: www.mysite.com/webpage%3Fmyid%3D1 require ''uri'' $myurl = URI.escape("webpage?myid=") redirect_to(:action => $myurl + 1 ) what am I doing wrong? I also tried require ''cgi'' $myurl =

hi there, I have in my controller, the following to catch a link_to_remote: def form_part_add_personnel @credit_types = CreditType.find(:all) p = Credit.new() p.id = rand.to_s[2..-1] render :update do |page| page.insert_html :bottom, "script", :partial => ''films/form/personnel'',

# camping_plugin.rb # plug-in support for Camping Apps # require ''lib/camping_plugin'' # override R helper method to your liking :-) module Camping module PluginHelpers def R_with_module(c,*g) p,h=/\(.+?\)/,g.grep(Hash) g-=h raise "bad route" unless u = c.urls.find{|x| break x if x.scan(p).size == g.size &&

Well, this is more of an apache question, but... I''m running a nice little ''cluster'' of camping apps and I''ve recently started proxying them through apache with mod_proxy, since I found I was forwarding a lot of ports via ssh otherwise. But anyway, enough of that. One of the apps I use to view logs from IRC (with formatting and highlighting!). But

Hi Guys, I succeeded in sending email with content-type big5. However, the content of the email is still utf-8! I''ve tried to call the t(:my_sentence).encode(''big5'') or my content, but there is "invalid byte sequence in UTF-8" errors in a lot of places starting from actionmailer/lib/utils.rb (text.to_s.gsub(/\r\n?/, "\n")) and it stop me from

Dear all, I'm trying to gsub() "%" with "\%" with no obvious success. > temp1 <- c("mean", "sd", "0%", "25%", "50%", "75%", "100%") > temp1 [1] "mean" "sd" "0%" "25%" "50%" "75%" "100%" > gsub("%",

Greeting R Community, I am a windows user so this problem may be specific to windows. I often want to source files from within R such as: C:\Users\Rinker\Desktop\Research & Law\Data\School Data 09-10. To source this file I need to go through the path and replace all the backslashes (\) with forward slashes (/). I usually do this in MS Word using the replace option, however, I'd like

I needed to format numbers with commas to make it more human readable. Here''s how I did it. def commify(number) c = { :value => "", :length => 0 } r = number.to_s.reverse.split("").inject(c) do |t, e| iv, il = t[:value], t[:length] iv += '','' if il % 3 == 0 && il != 0 { :value => iv + e, :length =>