Short order ruby talk proposal

[Ben G]

Forget frameworks.

What can you do in 40 lines of ruby?

Proposing to whizz through 5 or 6 useful, short and ad hoc ruby
scripts to show some of the tricks and tricks you might find useful in
using ruby as an everyday scripting/glue language.

Ben

[David Salgado]

Sounds like a great idea.

D

2009/11/14 Ben G <bengri...@gmail.com>:

[edavey]

Yes!

On Nov 14, 8:56 pm, David Salgado <da...@digitalronin.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a great idea.
>
> D
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> 2009/11/14 Ben G <bengriffi...@gmail.com>:

[Peter Ferne]

+1
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petef

[James Adam]

On Nov 14, 8:27 pm, Ben G <bengriffi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Proposing to whizz through 5 or 6 useful, short and ad hoc ruby
> scripts to show some of the tricks and tricks you might find useful in
> using ruby as an everyday scripting/glue language.

I think this definitely sounds interesting.

Do you have some specific examples already in mind? If so, could you
(very briefly) describe the kinds of things that they do?

- James

[Martin Sadler]

Liking this one also. M

[Murray Steele]

Yeah, this chips into my lust for knowledge of what I can do with ruby
that's not my day job. Without knowing the sorts of scripts you want
to show off (although I think I can guess at least one: GO NORTH!)
it's hard to provide any feedback other than "yes please". If it
wouldn't be too much of a give-away for any talk you'd give, could you
give us a list of the scripts you'd want to talk about?

2009/11/16 Martin Sadler <mts...@googlemail.com>:

[Ben Griffiths]

Off the top of my head, and looking at some of the scripts I use, things I might cover (feedback please!) are:

• calling unix commands and IO streams 

      - using backticks, system, exec, Open3.popen3

      - using the PTY library (ships with standard library, good luck with finding any docs...)

      - what are STDIN, STDERR and STDOUT anyway?

• how do you make mysql do this and other magic pager tricks:

# mysql> select * FROM languages;

# 

# Ruby     ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ (200/60.06%)

# Java     ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ (100/30.03%)

# Fortran  ▆▆▆▆▆▆ (30/9.01%)

# C#       (3/0.90%)

# 

# 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

• using signals for long-running scripts to get status reports, etc

• maybe a bit on command-line option parsing (not too much, is boring)

• batch renaming of files - everyone needs to know how to do this, right?

• what does STDIO.tty? actually mean, is it useful?

• if anyone's interested in MacOS-specific stuff - using pbcoby, osascript, folder actions

• fork/sleep as a poor man's cron

All a bit unix-y. Clearer?

Ben

[Matt Patterson]

On 17 Nov 2009, at 00:38, Ben Griffiths wrote:

> • if anyone's interested in MacOS-specific stuff - using pbcoby, osascript, folder actions

I did a short rb-appscript-focussed ruby talk at LRUG a couple of years ago. I'd be happy to do a bigger/better or shorter/better version of that talk covering the Apple Event + OSA and Ruby landscape (including general tools), this time with actually working demos...

Matt

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[James Adam]

Could be interesting - can you flesh out a proposal in a new thread, so that it doesn't get mixed up with Ben's?

- James

[alan]

+1 to this