From: Nathan Thickett-menghini <somerandom_bloke@...>
Date: 2007-09-15T23:07:40+09:00
Subject: errors, trying to edit and write some text files

Hi, I'm a total ruby noob but i've obtained this script from another
forum over at Tracks. I'm trying to extract some info from a plain text
feed of my upcoming calendar events and write specific info to three
different text files (today, tomorrow, and next 7 days). I'm on a Mac.

The script is here: I've already made edits specific to my computer (the
address of my text feed for example):

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Generate 3 seperate text files from Tracks TXT feeds
# listing actions due today (or overdue), tomorrow or
# in the next 7 days.
# You can then pull these text files into GeekTool and colour
# them separately.

# ======== Constants to set with your values ===============
#
# URL for the base feed: http://yourdomain.tld/feed/text/[token]
URL = "http://0.0.0.0:3000/feed/text/Nathan/b0b2a7c81680d1a1920b199ecb6db0ad86e2e984"
# Path to temporary directory
TEMP_DIR = "/Users/"
#
# =============================================
# Grab each feed, split into lines, then get rid of any non-action lines
today = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=0`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ /\s+\[Due:/ or line =~ /^\w/}
tomorrow = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=1`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ /\s+\[Due:/ or line =~ /^\w/}
this_week = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=6`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ /\s+\[Due:/ or line =~ /^\w/}

# Get rid of repeated actions in tomorrow and this_week
tomorrow = tomorrow - today
today_or_tomorrow = today + tomorrow
this_week = this_week - today_or_tomorrow

# Print the info to three files, stored in TEMP_DIR
file = File.new("#{TEMP_DIR}/today.txt", "w")
  file.print "\nToday:\n" + today.join("\n")
file.close

file = File.new("#{TEMP_DIR}/tomorrow.txt", "w")
  file.print "\nTomorrow:\n" + tomorrow.join("\n")
file.close

file = File.new("#{TEMP_DIR}/later.txt", "w")
  file.print "\nLater:\n" + this_week.join("\n")
file.close

When I run this from BBEdit I get about 50 lines of this:

untitled text:11: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:11: Invalid char `\240' in expression
untitled text:11: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:11: Invalid char `\240' in expression
untitled text:13: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:13: Invalid char `\240' in expression
untitled text:13: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:13: Invalid char `\240' in expression
untitled text:17: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:17: Invalid char `\240' in expression
untitled text:17: Invalid char `\302' in expression
untitled text:17: Invalid char `\240' in expression


Any ideas? Sorry if this appears obvious. Many thanks.
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