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Re: Implementing a great final project

Philipp — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:49:47 -0000

"If I am not already logged in, I should be given an opportunity to log in." sort of implies that once the user logs in they are magically sent to the /invitations/invite/### URL. The existing code does does, in a very primitive way, give "an opportunity to log in", but then bumps you to the main page, rather than taking you where you had initially asked to go. May we assume that once they log in they can click on the link in the email again and we take them to the correct page, or are we expected to implement some kind of more-intelligent login system as well?

Re: Assignment 4; due Nov. 11

Philipp — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:18:48 -0000

Also, change it in "test/migration/reference.yml" or "rake e168:test:migrations" won't work.
I have the feeling I'm making life harder for myself, sometimes :-)

Re: Assignment 4; due Nov. 11

Philipp — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:48:33 -0000

In case anyone prefers to use cygwin rather than the command prompt on Windows, you'll have discovered that you can't do much with the database the way the code stands. (e.g. any rake tasks get an error looking for "/tmp/mysql.sock")
I've discovered that changing "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in "config/database.yml" takes care of the problem. I guess it tries to access it differently depending on that setting.

Re: Your one-liners?

Philipp — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:22:59 -0000

Plus, you can't censor things containing a mix of word and non-word characters. If you put "can't" in your banned word list, it won't be filtered out.
I'll leave the substring-based solution to someone else.
Also, what I posted censors case-sensitively. That probably ought to be corrected, too. Making it:
d.map {|b| b.upcase}.include?(w.upcase)
should take case of that.
Oneliners that try to cover all the bases seem to get quite ornate.

Re: Your one-liners?

Philipp — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:16:10 -0000

This is a little tricky, since punctuation gets in the way (you can't use a plain "split" because those "Indians" at the end have a trailing ".")
I think this covers most situations, but "\b" may be a little obscure.

s.split(/\b/).map {|w| d.include?(w) ? w[0].chr + "*" * (w.length - 1) : w}.join