Selenium rocks or how easily get badges at stackoverflow by makaroni4
#selenium is a web browser automation tool and unlike #mechanize it allows you to run javascript. So when we want to use selenium? Of course the most common way to use if is for testing. But what can we do else with #selenium? ruby script for hacking SO under the cut
Check pages status with em-synchrony crawler by makaroni4
On your website's main page could be hundreds of links and sometimes some broken ones appeared there. If you have perfect test coverage - it is not a problem. In this post I will show a simple script which will help you to "click" on every link on your website and check if it is broken. More under the cut
Using Textmate bundles by makaroni4
Everyday I parse something, everyday I test the time of running parsing code which sometimes can take a lot of time. Since the base of the code is always the same (I use #benchmark for testing and #mechanize for parsing) I don't need to write it every time - I created #textmate bundles. Code is under the cut