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require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-debug'

abort("Supply a twitter screen name like: ruby twitter_info_via_curl.rb tomcreighton") unless ARGV.size > 0

# the -s argument makes curl silent (it will no longer show a progress meter)
# don't forget to append m to your regular expressions if you want the . to match newline characters
user_info = `curl -s http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=#{ARGV[0]}`.match(
  /<followers_count>(\d*)<\/followers_count>.*<statuses_count>(\d*)<\/statuses_count>/m)
puts "Followers: #{user_info[1]}"

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# When we create our Rackup file, we'll already be requiring RubyGems and Sinatra, 
# so we don't require them again if they've already been loaded.
require 'rubygems' unless defined? ::RubyGems
require 'sinatra' unless defined? ::Sinatra
require 'rack' # more on the decision to include this below
require 'dm-core'
require 'haml'
require 'ruby-debug'

# If you want changes to your application to appear in development mode without having to 

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inject({}) { |hash,(k,v)| hash[k.downcase] = v ; hash }

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def past(interval)
  interval.inject({}) { |interval,(k,v)| interval[k] = v.abs * -1; interval }
end

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# given hash like { :weeks => 1 } or { :months => -2 }, always return hash with a negative value
def past(interval)
  k,v = interval.to_a[0]
  interval[k] = v.abs * -1
  interval
end

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require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-debug'

def media_type_params(content_type)
  debugger
  return {} if content_type.nil?
  content_type = content_type.split(/\s*[;,]\s*/)[1..-1]
  content_type = content_type.collect { |s| s.split('=', 2) }
  content_type = content_type.inject({}) { |hash,(k,v)| hash[k.downcase] = v ; hash }
  content_type

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# The media type parameters provided in CONTENT_TYPE as a Hash, or
# an empty Hash if no CONTENT_TYPE or media-type parameters were
# provided. e.g., when the CONTENT_TYPE is "text/plain;charset=utf-8",
# this method responds with the following Hash:
# { 'charset' => 'utf-8' }
def media_type_params
  return {} if content_type.nil?
  content_type.split(/\s*[;,]\s*/)[1..-1].
    collect { |s| s.split('=', 2) }.
    inject({}) { |hash,(k,v)| hash[k.downcase] = v ; hash }

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'
require 'ruby-debug'
require 'cgi'

f = open("http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1859288#1859354")

doc = Hpricot(f)