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May 5, 2013 15:41
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| def index | |
| @weights = current_user.weights.all | |
| @startdate = 30.days.ago.to_date | |
| @pounds = (30.days.ago.to_date..Date.today).map { |date| Weight.pounds_on(date).to_f } | |
| @h = LazyHighCharts::HighChart.new('graph') do |f| | |
| f.options[:title][:text] = " " | |
| f.options[:chart][:defaultSeriesType] = "area" | |
| f.options[:chart][:inverted] = false |
nickbuddendotcom
/ gist:5792710
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August 16, 2019 11:26
Scrape wikipedia's country flags from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sovereign-state_flags. All of Wikipedia's country flags are stored as SVG, so they can be scaled. Their width is stored in the flag's URL, so this can be changed to download whatever size of a flag you'd like. For my purposes I needed to limit my flags by height, but I wasn'…
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| <?php | |
| scrape_wikipedia_flags(); | |
| function scrape_wikipedia_flags( $max_height = 60 ) { | |
| // Create a 'flags' directory inside whatever directory we're working in. | |
| // We'll download our flags here | |
| $dir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . "/flags/"; | |
| if(!is_dir($dir)) mkdir($dir,0777,true); |