Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts

Documentation

You will notice slight differences between the code in the book and the source code available for download at http://www.nostarch.com/wcruby.htm/. Most of the comments and documentation have been taken out of the source code in the book for brevity's sake. Some of the scripts have more detailed explanations if I felt clarity was needed. I highly encourage commenting your own code so you and other people can understand how it works.

Note

When I began programming, I spent several hours reviewing code I had previously written to figure out how it worked. After a few rounds of studying code without comments, I learned an important lesson—comment your code while it's fresh in your mind. The amount of commenting is up to you, but it is ...