From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-01-24T03:31:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Gathering Ruby Quiz 2 Data (#189)

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Daniel Moore <yahivin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> ## Gathering Ruby Quiz 2 Data
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> I'm building the new Ruby Quiz website and I need your help...
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> This week's quiz involves gathering the existing Ruby Quiz 2 data from
> the Ruby Quiz website: <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/>
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> Each quiz entry contains the following information:
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>  * id
>  * title
>  * description
>  * summary
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> There are also many quiz solutions that belong to each quiz. The quiz
> solutions have the following:
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>  * quiz_id
>  * author
>  * ruby_talk_reference
>  * text
>
> Matthew has some advice for getting at the data:
>> If you start at <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/>, you'll see
>> the quiz list on the left are all links to the same quiz.rhtml file
>> (embedded Ruby), but with different id parameters. Those
>> parameters are the name of a subdirectory. So, for example,
>> take quiz #184, which has a link like this:
>>
>> <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/quiz.rhtml?id=184_Befunge>
>>
>> So there is a subdirectory called "184_Befunge". There
>> are basically three files in every directory:
>>
>>  * quiz.txt -- the quiz description
>>  * sols.txt -- a list of author names and the ruby-talk message # of the submission
>>  * summ.txt -- the quiz summary
>>
>> Examples:
>>  * <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/184_Befunge/quiz.txt>
>>  * <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/184_Befunge/sols.txt>
>>  * <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/184_Befunge/summ.txt>
>>
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> Your program will collect and output this data as yaml (or your favorite data
> serialization standard; xml, json, etc.).
>
> --
> -Daniel
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Daniel in which time zone are you? What do you and the others think if
we give our friends in GMT-x some more time? My suggestion would be to
extend the spoiler period to something like Sunday 13h or 14h GMT.
Actually I do not care about the Americans ;) I just sleep that long on WEs.
Just 0.02€.
Robert