Ruby

• Memcached

  sudo gem install memcache-client
  

  require 'rubygems'    
  require 'memcache'
  
  require 'timeout'
  
  CACHE = MemCache.new :c_threshold => 10000,
                       :compression => true,
                       :debug => true,
                       :namespace => 'irr',
                       :readonly => false,
                       :urlencode => false
  CACHE.servers = ["127.0.0.1:11211"]
  
  k = :key
  v = CACHE.get k
  
  if v.nil?
    puts "setting value..."
    v = "45678"
    CACHE.set k, v, 10
  else
    puts "got value: #{v}"
  end
  puts "RESULT: #{k} => #{v}"
  

• Dic

  #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
  require 'net/http'
  
  class Site
  
    def initialize(stat, title, url, uri, reg, blk, port)
      @stat, @title, @url, @uri, @reg, @blk, @port = stat, title, url, uri, reg, blk, port
    end
  
    def run()
      resp = ""
      if @stat > 0
          request = Net::HTTP.new(@url, @port)
          response = request.get(@uri)
          if response.body =~ @reg
              val = @blk.call($1)
              resp = "#{@title}:\n#{val}\n\n"
          end
      end
      return resp
    end
    
  end
  
  loop do
      word = `zenity --entry --text="Please enter the word to translate:" --title="Dictionary"`.split();
      break if word.length == 0
  
      sites = [Site.new(1,
                        'Babylon',
                        'online.babylon.com',
                        "/cgi-bin/trans.cgi?layout=uol.txt&lang=ptg&word=#{word}",
                        /.*?<div style="margin: 5px;">.*?<B>.*?<\/B><HR WIDTH=.*?>(.*?)<\/div>/ums,
                        lambda {|s| s.strip().gsub(/<.*?>/,'').gsub(/^\n/,'; ').gsub(/\n/,'')},
                        80),
               Site.new(1,
                        'Urban Dictionary',
                        'www.urbandictionary.com',
                        "/define.php?term=#{word}",
                        /.*?<div class='definition'>(.*?)<\/div>/ums,
                        lambda {|s| s.strip().gsub(/<.*?>/,'')},
                        80)]
  
      resp = ""
      sites.each do |site|
          resp += site.run()
      end
  
      `echo "#{resp}" | zenity --title="Dictionary [#{word}]" --text-info`
  end
  

• Zenity patch (Ubuntu 8.10)

  cd /usr/share/zenity
  sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18653141/zenity-2.24.0-focus.patch
  sudo patch -p0 zenity.glade < zenity-2.24.0-focus.patch