Category Archives: Ruby

The overdue task of maintenance on my code base continues. Some time last October, Yahoo made changes to its finance site, which broke the currency conversion module of my Ruby/Finance library. I’ve finally got around to fixing this and the … Continue reading →

I wasn’t planning another release of this package quite so quickly, but a user asked me how to restrict the number of results returned by the server, prompting me to ask myself, “Yeah, how do you do that?” I quickly … Continue reading →

I promised I’d return to coding and here’s the first fruit of my labours, a new version of Ruby/Google. Version 0.6.0 adds a new method, Search#utf8(src). If src is not nil, query strings used by the Search#search and Search#spell methods … Continue reading →

Patches are supposed to fix things, not leave them broken in new and interesting ways, so I thought I should redo yesterday’s patch in such a way that it would actually have value. If you are scratching your head after … Continue reading →

If you’re a Ruby/Google user and recently discovered that the library had stopped working, you’ll probably be interested in this patch to version 0.5.1 that fixes things. It appears that Google made some silent changes at their end, probably to … Continue reading →