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Make your own IM bot in Ruby

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:42:39 GMT

The following code was copied from the article 'Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it with your Rails app' [rubypond.com].

installation:



git clone git://github.com/ln/xmpp4r.git xmpp4r

cd xmpp4r

rake gem:install

sudo gem install xmpp4r-simple

connect:



require 'rubygems'  

require 'xmpp4r-simple'

messenger = Jabber::Simple.new('my-bot@gmail.com', "bot-password")

send:



messenger.deliver("a-real-person@gmail.com", "Why hello there Mr. Person, your bot is here now!")

listen:



while true

  messenger.received_messages do |msg|  

    puts msg.body  

    messenger.deliver("a-real-person@gmail.com", "Got your message, thanks!")  

  end  

  sleep 2  

end

at your service:



require 'rubygems'  

require 'xmpp4r-simple'

messenger = Jabber::Simple.new('my-bot@gmail.com', "bot-password")

while true

  messenger.received_messages do |msg|

    user = User.find_by_im_name(msg.from)

    if user

      case msg.body

      when /^help /i

        messenger.deliver(msg.from, "Valid commands are......")  

      when /^status /i

        user.status = msg.body.sub(/^status /i)

        user.save

        messenger.deliver(msg.from, "Thanks #{user.first_name}, your status has been updated")  

      when /^balance\?/i

        messenger.deliver(msg.from, "#{user.first_name}, your current remaining balance is #{user.remaining_balance}")  

      else

        messenger.deliver(msg.from, "Sorry #{user.first_name}, I didn't understand that. Message me with 'help' for a list of commands")  

      end

    else

      messenger.deliver(msg.from, "Sorry, but we've not got this account registered on our system. Sign-up or update your details at http://www.mysite.com/")  

    end    

  end  

  sleep 2  

end

A simple XHTML submit form for ProjectX

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:32:48 GMT

Preparing ProjectX API requests through the browser's address bar can get quite messy, however inputting the request through a simple form makes it much easier to read.



  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">



  

    ProjectX API

    

  

  

    ProjectX API form

    Enter the Project API XML to send a request to the server.

    

    xml_project

    

    

  

            src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"

        alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" style="float:right;  border:0 "/>

  

  last updated: 13th April 2008

The web page can be seen at http://rorbuilder.info/r/projectx-api/index.html
The following XML request value when submitted should return an XML result containing the results and the method executed.

eg.

Easiest way to do a POST test from Java

frost137 (Douglas Wyatt) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:05:42 GMT

I need to test services with POST transactions. Using HTML to do it is the easiest way, constructed in Java (that part isn't necessary unless the args are somehow cooked or just too complex to trust hand-crafted HTML).



// write the HTML code out to stdout -- leave it to the user to redirect

System.out.print( "System.out.print(  compId );

System.out.print( "\"/>System.out.print( ids );

System.out.print( "\"/>" );

System.out.print( "" );

System.out.println();

'Delete a Twitter entry' dissected

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:17:07 GMT

The following code was copied from my Twitter home page, it shows how to delete a twitter entry on the server.

raw HTML code with embedded JavaScript code.





title="Delete this update?">

same code as above but with comments.

 request. 

                 // However if JavaScript had been disabled for some reason the 

                 //  would have acted normally, meaning the record 

                 // would have been deleted from following the URL request directly.

 "

Note: Twitter needs JavaScript for the web page to work properly, I've tried and it is not possible to delete a record without JavaScript. The authenticity_token has been altered by me to prevent any malicious activity on my Twitter account.

PHP: Email All Form Values

cornerblue (CornerBLUE, Inc.) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:09:40 GMT

If you need a very basic contact form and don't want to write extra code for putting the value of each field into the email, you can use this basic email. It works best if you name your form fields something legible, such as First_Name



if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {

	// Prepare message

	$msg = "Time: " . date("m/d/y g:ia", time()) . "\n";

	foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value) {

		if ($field != "submit") $msg .= $field . ": " . $value . "\n";

	}

	

	if (mail("TOEMAIL", "SUBJECT", $msg, "From: FROM_NAME ")) {

		// Email was sent

	} else {

		// Erro sending email

	}

}

PHP: Pass On Values For A Multi-Page Form

cornerblue (CornerBLUE, Inc.) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:03:48 GMT

While the best way to do this involves saving the data into a database and passing an encrypted reference to the next page, this method will suffice for non-critical uses.



foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value) {

	echo "";

}

Encoding trouble with JQuery #1

SoftExpert (Marian) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:06:59 GMT

// description of your code here



[["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes : "],["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li01_is_c3is1","Se calcule sur la base suivante: Salaire mensuel brut négocié divisé par 1.01"],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Prime de vacances: "],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li02_is_c3is2","Correspond à 1% du Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes"],["es_cl_c3l1","default_list"]]

Encoding trouble with JQuery #1

SoftExpert (Marian) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:06:26 GMT

// description of your code here



[["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes : "],["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li01_is_c3is1","Se calcule sur la base suivante: Salaire mensuel brut négocié divisé par 1.01"],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Prime de vacances: "],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li02_is_c3is2","Correspond à 1% du Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes"],["es_cl_c3l1","default_list"]]

Perl - send form POST

whitetiger () — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:57:55 GMT

// Manda le informazioni per il login ad un determinato sito



use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);

use LWP::UserAgent;



my $user = "user";

my $pass = "pass";



my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();



my $responde = HTTP::Request->new(POST => "http://www.sito.com/index.php");

$responde->content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

$responde->content("user=" . $user . "&pass=" . $pass);



$browser->request($responde)->as_string

Python - Query BabelFish

whitetiger () — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:18:48 GMT

//Example di POST HTTP



#!/usr/bin/python



import urllib



def translate(lang='it_en', text='ciao'):

	

	'''Converte delle frasi da una lingua sorgente ad una lingua destinazione'''



	url = urllib.URLopener()

	

	query = urllib.urlencode({'doit':'done', 'intl':'1', 'lp':lang, 'tt':'urltext', 'urltext':text})

	

	responde = url.open('http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr', query).read()



	start = responde.find('') + 25

	stop = responde.find('', start)



	print responde[start:stop]