It works! Thanks a lot, it's another great idea.
I'm thinking about how to use it in a smart way. It could be very useful for the times when I want to put a definition on a card. But I input one card at a time, so it wouldn't be efficient that way. I could instead type all the sentences on a text document beforehand, then locate all the words I want to look up, then look them up with your nice script and finally enter them quickly into Anki.
How do you do it?

While I agree it might have been easier to use as a plugin to Anki, we should remember that not everyone uses Anki. A plugin for Anki would only work there, this script works everywhere.

As for windows, you should really have no problem with my script since it doesn't actually work with any commands, it's all pure ruby. The problems that can come up are two-fold:
1. The input needs to be UTF-8, notepad kinda sucks there. As long as you have a decent text editor (e text editor, notepad++ or SciTE for example) it shouldn't be a problem.
2. You need ruby-gems installed and then, using that, install hpricot. Shouldn't be any harder to install on windows than on linux, but I haven't tried it myself.

Last edited by Tobberoth (2009 May 26, 4:04 pm)

ahibba wrote:

Thank you for explanation.

1. I don't have problems with UTF-8. I have Win32Pad, EditPad Pro and other advanced text editors.

2. This is why I asked if someone has tried it. Because I don't have these things. I know that Ruby is a programming language, but I never used it. I'll search for it and hpricot.

Don't worry about the installation, Ruby is very easy in this regard. First, go to www.ruby-lang.org and get the Ruby one-click installer. As you hear from the name, it's really easy to install.

Once installed, if you know how, you should probably add the PATH to the ruby executable to your path (if the one-click installer doesn't do that for you, which is possible). This does so that when you're in command-line mode (Start -> Run and type cmd) you can simply write ruby rubyscript.rb to run scripts. Anyways, to get ruby-gems, just go here and download the latest .zip:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126

Unpack the zip, go into that directory using cmd and run "ruby setup.rb". When done, simply run "gem install hpricot" from the cmd and it should automatically download and install hpricot for you.

Once done, you can run my script just fine. mentats script will work as well (but you need to get mencoder for that one to work, instructions in his thread.)

Last edited by Tobberoth (2009 May 26, 5:26 pm)

To work on windows you need to change the line 55
from

File.open(save_file, 'w') do |file|
to
File.open(save_file, 'wb') do |file|

mentat_kgs wrote:

To work on windows you need to change the line 55
from

File.open(save_file, 'w') do |file|
to
File.open(save_file, 'wb') do |file|

Ah, I'll be darned, it has to write the kanji as binary? Well, I'll fix it and upload a new version right away.