From: Brad Ediger <brad@...>
Date: 2007-08-27T04:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] [SOLUTION] ID3 Tags (#136)

On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Ken Bloom wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:32:05 +0900, Brad Ediger wrote:
>
>> One of the biggest problems in software development is feature  
>> creep. In
>> the case of this Quiz, specification creep was the culprit, with the
>> spec being changed two times in two days. No offense intended,  
>> JEG2 ;-)
>>
>> Luckily, we can use the mighty power of Ruby to make our application
>> impervious to such changes, and save a couple heredocs to boot.
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -rubygems
>>
>> %w(hpricot open-uri).each(&method(:require))
>>
>> fields, genres = (Hpricot(open("http://www.rubyquiz.com/ 
>> quiz136.html")) / "p.example").map{|e| e.inner_html}
>> fields = fields.split
>> genres = genres.split "<br />"
>
> You hard-coded the value of the unpack field.

I know, I felt bad about doing it (and this was more of a "ha-ha,  
have fun with the Quiz" submission than a "use this in production"  
submission).

I was about to rewrite it to scrape the actual data structure from  
the table in http://www.id3.org/ID3v1, but then I'd have to find  
another quasi-official source for the genre list, and it began to  
feel more like work.

I like your solution. Yes, I should have used a "c" for the genre  
field, but my brain wasn't working.

-be