:-[] :-|| Vivek Khokhar rambles here :-O :-[]

step1: Compile lynx with ssl support

cd lynx source folder

./configure –with-ssl

step2:  make ; make install

To avoid local ssl error prompts/complains,  Open lynx.cfg make following change:

step3:  FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:yes

thats all!. you should be able to crawl https pages using lynx now.

Considering ffmpeg for mpeg cutting/splitting… too complex i think for such a simple task.

mpgtx.sourceforge.net is the way to go if are looking for simple operations like cutting/joining mpeg files.

Tool Summary :

This simple command(from a ruby script I wrote) will cut the full length videos into count_chunks pieces and store them under directory_writable, where count_chunks and directory_writable are both variables

RAILS_ROOT gives you relative path within the applications it works fine as far as you need the path within rails application.

How about getting absolute path to rails folder?

I found one way, and thats from the ENV hash.

You can use ENV[’PWD’] to find absolute path to the rails folder.
Any other ways ??

*Update 4th Oct 2007*

Dir.pwd is a better way