Monthly Archives: September 2009

How I Used Hpricot and Mechanize in GeeQE

By | Published: September 27, 2009
While building GeeQE I wanted to enhance the CC dump of Stack Overflow's data. The main reason I wanted to do this was to capture Gravatar hashes and user badges. To do this I decided to continue using Ruby as I did with the XML loading (see my previous post on XML parsing with Ruby). [...]
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Fast XML parsing with Ruby

By | Published: September 9, 2009
One of the first things I needed to do while building the GeeQE iPhone application was process the CC data dump from Stack Overflow. The dump contains XML files representing tables from Stack Overflow with the largest file being posts.xml weighing in at 1.2G as of September. I decided it would be pretty easy to [...]
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