I am a big fan of the Mobwars game on facebook. It is pretty fun, but there is lots of tedious things that you have to do to start making money. One of these things is attacking various users attempting to boost your rating or steal money.
As a fun task, I decided to see what I could do with page scraping and Mechanize. Here is some examples on how to use it.
If you haven't tried uploading files in rails, you are in for a treat. Most of the time a feature is implemented that everything is done with reasonable defaults and just works. Uploading files, this is simply not the case.
An odd error happened with the blog software today. Not sure what has caused it yet, but I have fixed it. The error was:
ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: 'evo_hitlog.MYI' (errno: 145)
Executing a 'repair table evo_hitlog' seemed to fix the problem.
I recently had some hard drive issues with this machine, so it is possible that the database files got corrupted. Everything seems to be moving along now, if anyone has ideas on what else may have caused this, please comment.
Why would I be using Windows and RoR? I am in the process of creating an automated build system for windows mobile builds, and windows mobile only builds on windows. There are quite a few things that behave different on windows vs linux or osx. The topic today is file access.
It was pointed out that my last post was not complete. Things worked, but as soon as you ran the test cases (admittedly, I don't do that very often) things break.
To solve the problem, I found a great page on the rubyonrails.org wiki here
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