# Rubular Rocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 11, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828 "2009-11-11T21:02:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/1 "2009-11-11T21:02:22Z")
Big thumbs-up to Rubular: [http://rubular.com/](http://rubular.com/) It made all the difference in the development of one of my most recent projects. Thank You, Mr. Lovitt. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/2 "2009-11-11T21:02:22Z")
On Nov 11, 12:23 pm, Intransition [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Big thumbs-up to Rubular: > > [http://rubular.com/](http://rubular.com/) > > It made all the difference in the development of one of my most recent > projects. > > Thank You, Mr. Lovitt. I second this motion. I’ve definitely used it for sanity checking. 🙂 Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/3 "2009-11-11T23:14:04Z")
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Thank You, Mr. Lovitt. > > I second this motion. I’ve definitely used it for sanity checking. 🙂 +1 I love the way you can train or observe a regex with inputs to see which it passes and which it rejects. Instant seed data to my validation tests. Now if somebody would do an equivalent tool for XPath that would make my day. I have had a lot of difficulty trying to get traction with learning XPath. Tis annoying, regards, Richard. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/4 "2009-11-11T23:31:03Z")
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > Now if somebody would do an equivalent tool for XPath that would make my > day. I have had a lot of > difficulty trying to get traction with learning XPath. Tis annoying, Not to hijack the thread or anything - but the Firefinder addon to firebug ( [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11905](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11905)) would be pretty equivalent for either XPath or CSS. Not as informative as to syntax - but certain simple to test out your filters on any page you want. John ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/5 "2009-11-12T02:23:42Z")
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Richard C. wrote: > > > projects. > > > Instant seed data to my validation tests. At the last boulder.rb users meeting, someone mentioned that they writeup a regular expression in rubular, hit the “make a permalink” button, and then paste the resulting URL into their source code as a comment where the regular expression is declared. Great way to document how the regular expression functions. Blessings, TwP ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/6 "2009-11-12T02:04:58Z")
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, John W Higgins [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ( > [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11905](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11905)) would be pretty > equivalent for either XPath or CSS. Not as informative as to syntax - but > certain simple to test out your filters on any page you want. I appreciate the hijack. Now back to our scheduling program of unadulterated Rubular fawning. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/7 "2009-11-12T19:01:07Z")
TP\> At the last boulder.rb users meeting Is that Boulder Colorado? If so … is there a meetup or a website, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubular-rocks/178828/8 "2009-11-12T19:06:59Z")
On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Ralph S. wrote: > TP\> At the last boulder.rb users meeting > > Is that Boulder Colorado? If so … is there a meetup or a website, > etc.? Indeed, it is Boulder, Colorado. [http://boulderruby.org/](http://boulderruby.org/) The next meeting is Monday, Nov 16. The group regularly meets on Wednesday, but that conflicts with RubyConf this year, so we are meeting on Monday for this month only. Blessings, TwP