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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Ruby Oracle DBI ActiveRecord in 7 steps

By carson | Published: March 23, 2006
Setting up ruby to work with Oracle seems to be a pain for a lot of people. Here are the steps I follow to set it up on a linux box from nothing to Active Record or DBI in 7 steps.
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Credit card type and luhn check in ruby

By carson | Published: March 15, 2006
I was looking at implementing a luhn and credit card type check the other day in java and I noticed that there seems to be a lack of code for doing this in ruby. So I figured I would put something together for doing the checks in ruby. The following function will do a luhn check [...]
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GIS Geocoding experiments

By carson | Published: March 9, 2006
I've been evaluating a couple different mapping software packages recently and the other day I noticed that the same addresses geocoded (for those who don't know what geocoding is you can find out more about it here) to different locations. They are mostly the same but I figured it was interesting enough to do some [...]
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