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NeMO84 / gist:875255

Created March 17, 2011 22:27

Remove place holder keys...

	{"muxer"=>{"__content__"=>"mp4"}, "filters"=>{"scale_width"=>{"__content__"=>"640"}, "scale_height"=>{"__content__"=>"480"}, "frame_rate"=>{"__content__"=>"30.00"}}, "codecs"=>{"codec"=>[{"name"=>{"__content__"=>"H264"}, "bit_rate"=>{"__content__"=>"1200000"}}, {"name"=>{"__content__"=>"AAC"}, "bit_rate"=>{"__content__"=>"128000"}, "channels"=>{"__content__"=>"2"}}]}}

	# I want to convert the above into

	{"muxer"=> {"mp4"}, "filters"=> {"scale_width"=> "640", "scale_height"=> "480", "scale_frate_rate"=> "30.00"}, "codecs"=> {"codec"=>[{"name" => "H264", "bit_rate" => "1200000"},{"name" => "AAC","bit_rate" => "128000","channels" => "2"}]}}

	# Essentially remove the "__content__" place holders.

NeMO84 / gist:873732

Created March 17, 2011 02:17

	ActiveResource::Formats::XmlFormat.decode("<a><b></b></a>")
	=> {"b"=>nil}

	# Is there any way to to change the xml, such that, we could yeild the following: {"b"=>""}

NeMO84 / gist:873655

Created March 17, 2011 00:54

	class A < ActiveResource::Base ; end

	A.site
	=> nil
	A.format
	=> ActiveResource::Formats::XmlFormat

	ActiveResource::Base.site = "http://abc123.com/"
	=> "http://abc123.com/"
	A.site

NeMO84 / sqlserver_adapter.rb

Created February 4, 2011 02:39

lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb

	def primary_key(table_name)
	identity_column(table_name).try(:name) \|\| columns(table_name).first.try(:name)
	end

NeMO84 / unit2_warmup3.rb

Created January 21, 2011 06:21

	CONFIRMATIONS = ["y","yes","sure","yup","why not"]

	def get_list_of_names
	puts "Please enter a list of words (one,two,three...):"
	input = gets.chomp.downcase
	input.split(",")
	end
	def sanitize(names_array)
	names_array = names_array.uniq
	end

NeMO84 / unit2_warmup2.rb

Created January 21, 2011 06:20

	array1 = [1, 2, 3, 4]
	array2 = %w{peter piper picked peppers}
	array3 = []

	# You need to write some code in this part
	# to make the program output "Success"
	array3 = array1.collect{\|i\| i.to_s}.zip(array2).flatten

	if array3 == ['1', 'peter', '2', 'piper', '3', 'picked', '4', 'peppers']
	puts "Success"

NeMO84 / unit2_warmup1.rb

Created January 21, 2011 06:19

	def numeric?(object)
	true if Float(object) rescue false
	end
	def get_user_response(message, validate_is_number = true)
	valid = false
	input = nil
	loop do
	puts message
	input = gets.chomp
	if validate_is_number

NeMO84 / Activity 1.6.rb

Created January 11, 2011 09:01

Let me know if things can be improved from both a coding perspective and a performance perspective. Thanks!

	# Nirmit Patel
	MAX_NUMBER = 100
	MIN_NUMBER = 1
	MAX_NUMBER_OF_GUESSES = 8

	computers_number = rand(MAX_NUMBER - MIN_NUMBER + 1) + MIN_NUMBER

	puts "Hello player. What is your name?"
	name = gets
	name = name.chomp

NeMO84 / log

Created January 7, 2011 23:27

the issue seems to be if I put :ids => /\d/ or :constraints=>{:ids => /\d/} then I get a RuntimeError (route set not finalized):

	Started POST "/login.xml" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-01-07 15:17:10 -0800

	RuntimeError (route set not finalized):


	Rendered /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.1/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_trace.erb (2.7ms)
	Rendered /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.1/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_request_and_response.erb (2.6ms)
	Rendered /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.0.1/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/diagnostics.erb within rescues/layout (12.2ms)

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