Category Archives: ruby

If you do a Google for “ruby mysql windows” you will find, among other things, lots of people trying to use Ruby to access MySQL on a Windows system. I’ve been trying for some time, and have finally gotten things … Continue reading →

Today is Day Three of RubyConf2004 and I’m tired. This has been a good conference. Lots of stuff to think about and play with. Lots of code flying around and lots of laptops all in one room. I was up … Continue reading →

The second meeting of the Atlanta Ruby User Group will be next Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00PM. We will continue with my introduction to Ruby presentation and discuss what others have been working on since the last meeting. I also … Continue reading →

If you read my stuff very often then you know that I am a huge fan of the Ruby programming language. I write a ton of Ruby code and went to RubyConf 2003, so there was only one other direction … Continue reading →

OpenSSH, that ships with Cygwin has a nice utility called ssh-agent. This program is a daemon that will hold on to your keys so that hosts you are authorized to log on to will not continually ask for your password. … Continue reading →

After reading several threads about the text scrmabler and various implementations, I revised my Ruby version and it’s now 21 lines shorter and much more Ruby-like. It makes far less of an attempt to deal with punctuation, but I think … Continue reading →

“Popular demand,” yeah… right… That’s the ticket. Anyway, I saw this blog entry by Jamie this morning which caused me to write a Ruby program to mix up the letters of words, leaving the first and last letter as they … Continue reading →

Mike Clark this morning has a bit of a nudge for Rael to give Ruby a try. Mike makes the following statement that I completely agree with The beauty of Ruby is its simplicity and consistency. With Ruby, I find … Continue reading →

I took a swipe at implementing Dave Thomas’ Kata 6 which is an assignment dealing with anagrams. The goal is to parse a list of 45000-ish words, finding all the words that are anagrams of other words in the file. … Continue reading →

Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers has started publishing programming problems, calling them Kata. He’s just published Kata 8 this morning and I’ve had a go at a solution. The problem is to take a supplied list of words and … Continue reading →