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  def just_one_kind_of_response?(item, controller)
    case controller
    when 'suggestions', 'actions'
      return item.comments.blank? || item.actions.blank? 
    when 'thoughts'
      return item.comments.blank? || item.suggestions.blank?
    end
  end

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Script to import tumblr posts into local markdown posts ready to be consumed by Jekyll.
# Inspired by New Bamboo's post http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/2/20/migrating-from-mephisto-to-jekyll

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'

# Configuration

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require "rubygems"
require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"

# last week, I started writing this code to parse data from search.ucas.com
# to help some of the people going to Young Rewired State. It looks like I'm
# not going to be able to go to YRS as I'm busy with academic work. I'd
# really appreciate it if someone could help them out.

# you don't have to use Ruby - it's just my hack language of choice. this

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>> e = DateTime.strptime('2009-05-07T01:33:23+01:00')
=> Thu, 07 May 2009 01:33:23 0100
>> f = DateTime.strptime('2009-05-06T23:33:23+01:00')
=> Wed, 06 May 2009 23:33:23 0100
>> e - f
=> Rational1, 12

>> a = Time.now
=> Thu May 07 10:25:53 -0400 2009
>> b = Time.now

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sudo aptitude search mysql | grep "^i"

i   libdbd-mysql-perl               - A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL da
i   libmysqlclient15-dev            - MySQL database development files          
i   libmysqlclient15off             - MySQL database client library             
i   mysql-client-5.0                - MySQL database client binaries            
i   mysql-common                    - MySQL database common files               
i   mysql-server                    - MySQL database server (metapackage dependi
i   mysql-server-5.0                - MySQL database server binaries            
i   php5-mysql                      - MySQL module for php5  

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'rio'
body = Net::HTTP.get 'minneapolisfuckingrocks.blogspot.com', '/2009/01/diplo-remix-collection.html'
links = body.scan(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\/]*mp3{1}/)
links.each {|link| rio(link) > rio(File.basename(link))}

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require 'csv'

codes = []

CSV.open("codes.csv", 'r') do |row|
# put the contents of the first column in each row in codes.csv,
# into the second column of each of codes
  codes[row[1].to_i] = row[0]
end