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I'm writing a ruby script whose purpose is generating contracts. It is very simple to implement. I just load up a bunch of variables and input those into a big string all at once like so:
outputstring = <<-eos
#{Time.now.to_date.to_s}
...
eos
It has a bunch of other fancy words after the date, but I want the date to be something like: "January 1st, 2015". I could manually implement all of this noise, but I'm thinking there has got to be a gem that will quickly handle this task for me. I see gems like number_in_words and have to wonder..
Thanks
Does it have to be a gem?
What about this:
2.0.0-p247 :001 > Time.now.strftime("%B %-d, %Y")
=> "August 7, 2014"
and/or
2.0.0-p247 :002 > Time.parse("2015-01-01").to_date.strftime("%B %-d, %Y")
=> "January 1, 2015"
(you might have to require 'time' for the second example
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I'm working with Ruby, I have a list of names/surnames in the Arabic Language, I want to translate them to Latin, as they are pronounced, for example, I have the name "رضوان" => "Redouane" (I can also accept Radouane, Radwan or anything like this).
Public APIs like google translate work fine on some names, but when the name has a meaning, they fail to translate it "as it is pronounced", for example, with Google translate, to English, it gives : "رمزي" => "symbolic" while what I want is "Ramzy" (I can also accept "Ramzi")
are there any good Ruby gems to translate names?
I'm trying to translate because I haven't been able to print arabic text to Ruby consoles directly, see : Printing a CP850 encoded string with Ruby (IRB)
Not a definite answer, but have you seen the Unidecoder gem? It provides basic transliteration from any unicode letters to plain ASCII. However, it is indeed only a simple transliteration, e.g. it does not add vowels to the transcription. Quoting from the README:
Other languages, like Hebrew and Arabic, don't write vowels, but assume them from context, so the ASCII representation of these langages given by this library will look fairly ugly to native speakers.
Your two examples yield to these transliterations:
require 'unidecoder'
=> true
>> "رضوان".to_ascii
=> "rDwn"
>> "رمزي".to_ascii
=> "rmzy"
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Is there a Sublime Text plugin for Ruby that, after I type class/def something + Enter, will automatically insert end and place the curser in the class/method?
For example, typing def initialize(args) + Enter would result in:
def initialize(args)
#cursor here
end
In Textmate if you type def + Tab, it sets things up for you like that. I believe Sublime does the same.
I haven't used sublime, but here is what i found.
you could create snippets using Ruby on Rails Snippet package
You could use the solution given in 'How to automatically add "end" to code blocks?'.
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Ruby 2.0 + rails 4.0
I want to show weather-feed on the public site, is there any gem which will show the weather according to the city name ?
without any registrations and charges.
Any suggestion ?
Why? write your using nokogiri and yahoo weather api!
it is quite a way try to do something myself and know more than using someone else's
For example:
require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"
link = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2123260&u=c" #2123260 this code of my city
data = Nokogiri::XML(open(link))
data.xpath("//item//yweather:condition")[0].to_s
#=> "<yweather:condition text=\"Cloudy\" code=\"26\" temp=\"-6\" date=\"Tue, 10 Dec 2013 3:30 pm MSK\"/>"
And more pictures available weather schedule for the week and so on. Just take it!
That's all
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What frameworks exist to add AOP to Ruby?
With Ruby 2.0+, you don't necessarily need a framework:
module BarkLogger
def bark
puts "Logging ##name's bark!"
super
end
end
class Dog
prepend BarkLogger
def initialize(name)
#name = name
end
def bark
puts "##name the dog says bark!"
end
end
Dog.new("Rufus").bark
Output:
Logging Rufus's bark!
Rufus the dog says bark!
You haven't specified any criteria for evaluating different frameworks, so here's one that I found after 3 seconds on Google: Aquarium.
Another one, suggested by #Telemachus: gazer.
Shameless plug: aspector could be what you are looking for. It allows you to define aspect and then apply to one or more targets.
I tried 2 or 3 years ago Aquarium gem at university project. Worked nice, aim of project was comparing with AspectJ, to find out if it is capable of all things as AspectJ. At that time a lot of functionality, which AspectJ was capable of, was missing. But now I see a many things were added, so it's worth a try again.
AspectR (last release looks like in 2002) - originally the canonical AOP library in Ruby.
Facets - has some AOP functionality.
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I need to find the city and state from a zip code. Does anyone know a good plugin/API that I can use to do this?
gem install geokit
In IRB:
require 'geokit'
geo = GeoKit::Geocoders::MultiGeocoder.multi_geocoder('90210')
if geo.success
geo.state # => CA
geo.city # => Beverly Hills
end
A more lightweight option is the Area gem.
require 'area'
'11211'.to_region #=> "Brooklyn, NY"
See Jason's answer. It works nicely.
The problem is that the USPS doesn't allow bulk downloads of their zip-code lists unless you pay for it. Google's API, which is used in the gem mentioned by Splashlin, no longer seems to support the city and state, instead it now returns the area code:
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
json = JSON::parse(open('http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=852581').read)
puts json
# >> {"name"=>"852581", "Status"=>{"code"=>602, "request"=>"geocode"}}
This page shows some ways you could roll your own. The sources of the data might not be current though:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/48815