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Cloud IDEs for Ruby Beginners
Testing your Ruby App in the cloud using a Cloud IDE Why run your ruby code in the cloud? Running code in the cloud and seeing the results is useful for a number of reasons. 1. Collaboration. You can edit code and have someone else review and update it and teams can work on the […]
Write Better Blog Posts with Help from Ruby
Anyone writing for a blog or online magazine would be wise to try to understand how search engine’s interpret their work. Word frequency is something to consider. If you’ve written a piece about Japan but China is mentioned more times in the article you might want to revise your ideas. It’s also a useful exercise […]
Extracting URLs from Text – Ruby as a Time Saving Tool
Often when I’m moving content from one site to another, or one format to another, I’m presented with some time-consuming tasks. One of these is extracting URLs from within formatted WordPress posts with shortcodes or text. Here’s a typical example to illustrate:
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[su_label class="largelabel"]Active Child - Hanging On[/su_label][su_label type="info" class="largelabel"]Electronic[/su_label] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"][su_youtube_advanced url="https://youtu.be/ycYewhiaVBk" controls="alt" showinfo="no" rel="no"] [su_label class="largelabel"]Steven Wilson - Drive Home[/su_label][su_label type="success" class="largelabel"]Rock[/su_label] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"][su_youtube_advanced url="https://youtu.be/XEfca5RwF3s" controls="alt" showinfo="no" rel="no"] [su_label class="largelabel"]Solar Fields - Cobalt 2.5[/su_label][su_label type="info" class="largelabel"]Electronic[/su_label] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"][su_youtube_advanced url="https://youtu.be/_qnAowOProU" controls="alt" showinfo="no" rel="no"] [su_label class="largelabel"]Bonobo - Kiara [Live][/su_label][su_label type="info" class="largelabel"]Electronic[/su_label] [/su_column] |
This is a bit of a mess but Ruby can extract the URLs quite […]