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Ruby being as powerful as it is yet simple to code in still isn't 100 percent perfect. One such requirement to make life easier would be a method to convert a byte array into a string such as Java's String str = new String(byte[]). ...

Attempting to make a connection from Ruby to MySQL may throw the following error:

A while back I was trying to scrape web pages but my web host didn't fully support cURL for their own rationale. The main reason I was using cURL was because it allows headers to be sent to the hosting server. Headers explain more about a request made ...

The PYTHONPATH is an environmental variable that specifies where Python can find modules. More than likely you will be saving your modules to a folder outside the one that Python uses. This means that Python needs to be told where to look for them. That ...

Connecting to MySQL is not always a smooth process. Sometimes errors are thrown that make little or no sense, errors understandable only to someone who is more than a MySQL novice. One such error I encoutered using Ruby with MySQL was:

When inserting text into a window, if the width or height of the image created from the text is greater then the window that it is displayed in, only a portion of the text will be visible. Generally the viewable area is from the absolute top and left of ...

Ever wonder why some url/links start with periods and forward slashes in HTML code. Perhaps you need to remove them. The PHP function in this article, clean_url() does that for you. Frist though, a little explanation about w ...

The loading of modules in Python, known as importing, is straightforward until you need to load your own. Python imports modules by searching through directories specified in an environmental variable called PYTHONPATH. This article explains how to set t ...

Creating a directory for a path made up of multiple directories can be a little troublesome. Take for example the PHP function mkdir(). If you need to create a single directory, for example "imag ...

Certain tasks can take a long time to complete and leave a visitor to your website wondering if something is just not working properly. This could cause visitors to give up waiting and move onto another web site. In a case like this a progress bar is req ...