Dr Nic

53 cheat sheets and growing

I said previously that errtheblog’s cheat app would have 100s+ of cheat sheets.

After a month and a half, they are now half way. There is still more cheating to be done.

> require 'map_by_method'
> require 'hpricot'
> require 'open-uri'
> doc = Hpricot(open("http://cheat.errtheblog.com/b"))
> cheatsheets = doc.search('div.content/ul/li').children.map_inner_html.flatten
=> ["ascii", "assertions", "assert_select", "balloon", "bash", "belongs_to", "blogs",
"callbacks", "capistrano", "cheat", "database_yml", "deprecated", "environments",
"exceptions", "firebug", "google_mail", "google_reader", "gruff", "has_and_belongs_to_many",
"has_many", "has_one", "http_status_codes", "iomodes", "jedit_ruby_editor_plugin",
"link_to_remote", "markaby", "markdown", "matz_bot", "microformats_helper",
"migrations", "mocha", "nonsense", "prototype", "rails_console", "rails_edge", "rdoc",
"readline", "regex", "rjs", "rspec", "ruby", "scrapi", "sprintf", "sti", "strftime", "svn",
"tempfile", "textmate_rails", "tld", "validations", "vim", "vim_goodies", "wmii3"]
> puts "#{cheatsheets.length} cheat sheets and counting..."
53 cheat sheets and counting...

By the way, they celebrated when they hit 42.

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