Archive for January, 2009

Download those databases..

What I did know was that you could download wikipedia and also wikitravel. But you can even download the IMDB to some extend. It’s all in text format.. but it IS available.
I could not find a (Ruby) script that imports all data in a usable database structure however.. anybody got an idea?
[update]
I found IMDbPY that […]

Plugin gem dependencies in your environment.rb

One good thing in recent Ruby on Rails are Gem Dependencies! However.. they are very frustrating when you need gems in your plugins. This gives you a Catch 22..
The rake task to install gems:

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sudo rake gems:install # Use sudo! See notes below

gives you an error like:

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sudo rake gems:install
(in /your/rails/dir)
rake aborted!
no such file to load — […]