cchandler

class TimeZoneFinder
  def self.find_gmt_offset(lat,lng)
    uri = URI.parse("http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat=#{lat}&lng=#{lng}")
    doc = Hpricot.XML(Net::HTTP.get(uri))
    (doc/"geonames"/"timezone"/"gmtOffset").innerHTML.to_f
  end
end

offset = TimeZoneFinder.find_gmt_offset(some_lat, some_lng)
timezone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone[offset]

cchandler

some_function = lambda { |node| puts "Hello" }
nodeList.inject { |individualNode,accumulator| individualNode.function_that_starts_lambdas(some_function) }

cchandler

lists:foldl(fun(Elem,Acc) ->  % Anonymous function taking two params
      Pid = spawn(Elem, fun() -> io:format("Hello",[]) end ), % Spawn a process to run the fun
      Acc ++ [Pid] % Add the Pid of the new remote process into our accumulator so we can get it again later
      end, [], nodes()) % The [] is our empty accumulator and nodes() will be every node we're connected to