Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts

INTRODUCTION

So you've read a few introductory books about Ruby, you have a good feel for the syntax, and you've written "Hello, world!" about 20 different optimized ways—now what? This book is intended to give your mind an exercise in Ruby as a scripting language.

Scripting—that is, automating repetitive tasks you're not prepared to do yourself—is one of those things that a good language must be able to do. Perl and Python are two of the most widely known scripting languages, and their popularity has a direct correlation to their usefulness for scripting. Writing utilities should not be a cryptic task, nor should scripts take an inordinate amount ...