... I've used hpricot separately, and I'm mostly using Mechanize with its objects like page.body or page.links, and then using a regex to grab data. These are...
Just in case anyone here uses vim (besides Josh) I wrote a blackboard colorscheme. It is a clone of the textmate blackboard theme. There are still a few...
I've started working on the presentation for TechMixerU. For my first example of ruby, I want to show a very simple String problem. I'm currently thinking of...
I forgot, what is the topic of your presentation? ... -- "Imagination is greater than knowledge." - Albert Einstein http://tweakmylife.blogspot.com/ ...
A common problem is to process a form. One example I might suggest would be to deal with phone numbers. Here's some code I wrote to break just about any number...
Being a JavaBot, I don't think would excite me. It makes Ruby look so Perl like, it would turn me off. Secondly, this could most likely be done just as easy...
Greg: I would think the block-handling of string.gsub is sufficiently non-perlish to provide some interest. I also think it shows off very quickly the value...
Here's a more interesting case (or least interesting, I really have to work at it to figure this stuff out so I figured it might be interesting). Someone asked...
Why do you use Ruby? Malcolm's prior post got me thinking... why do you like ruby? or what got you to dig deeper into ruby? Since I'm creating an intro to...
Well. I use it because it enables me to get things done that I couldn't do otherwise. I usually can understand code written in Ruby, even though I know very...
Because of RoR. :) ... -- "Imagination is greater than knowledge." - Albert Einstein http://tweakmylife.blogspot.com/ http://buttkickingbooks.blogspot.com/ ...
Sorry, I'm a JavaBot, not a Ruby guy (yet). I've been monitoring the discussion, and I'm little lost on the presentation. Is there going to be multiple...
A nonexhaustive list of reasons, in arbitrary order: - RubyGems is very nice. Library availability and uniformity of distribution is a Good Thing in a...
Yeah... I had similar reaction to that of Malcolm. Showing a bunch of regular expression code in an introduction to the language will likely leave most of...
RoR is a good reason. I've heard many say Ruby was dead until RoR. However, there are equivalent RoR showing up in other languages. So, the RoR argument...
While RoR is probably why a lot of us are using Ruby, the point should be made that without Ruby, there would not really BE Rails. At least not the Rails we...
It would be nice if the introduction to Ruby showed some of the Ruby magic. Perhaps a mini-Domain Specific Language, and some other metaprogramming magic. It...
... For some years, I've had an interest in scripting languages. They're closely tied to the OS, and can call other *nix tools. Very handy in system...
... I went to a presentation by Dave Thomas or Pragmatic Programmers on Ruby before there was a Ruby on Rails and I found it fascinating. The room was packed...
... I agree. You could arrive at better frameworks just by trying to clone the Java examples in Ruby. Struts, Spring, Hibernate. [Non-text portions of this...
That is the reason I asked the question Why Ruby? If I can understand what is bringing people to Ruby, then I will include it in my presentation. My reasons...
I think if the presentation consists of how to... use irb, define a variable, define a method, define a class, define a module, create an instance of a class, ...
Mark your calenders, the next RubyHam lunch meeting is at the Cocina Superior, Monday, July 7th at 11:30am til 1:00pm or so. Please RSVP, so we know how many...
Anyone else up for pushing the lunch back a week? Given that it is a holiday weekend some (like me!) may be out of town. If we can push it I will definitely...
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