Black-boxing with Ruby

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Practical recipes for using Ruby to automate non‑Ruby services and what actually works: shows a command‑line client that posts to Track (a gem called dracula/tractor) using HP::Mechanize and hpricot, a comment overlay that turns static pages into WordPress‑backed discussions via WordPress XML‑RPC and a proxy, and YAML bulk ticket import. Tools solve real workflow problems but break when sites change, sometimes require PHP hacks, and benefit from a small proxy wrapper to isolate fragility and add robust error handling.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:32Overview
3. 11:54Lessons Learned
4. 16:40Wordpress
5. 21:28Client Code
6. 24:38Php for Wordpress
7. 29:08Goals
8. 29:46Robust Exception Handling
9. 30:47Web Api
10. 32:10Cloud Panel
11. 33:53Questions

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