http://snipplr.com/users/noah/tags/ruby Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:34:30 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/9534/rdoc/

]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:54:26 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/9534/rdoc/ http://snipplr.com/view/9128/use-rake-to-tear-down-build-and-prepare-a-db-for-testing-with-autotestzentest/ Run the following commands in the root of your Rails project.

]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:05:53 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/9128/use-rake-to-tear-down-build-and-prepare-a-db-for-testing-with-autotestzentest/ http://snipplr.com/view/6594/post-to-twitter-from-the-shell/ Put this in a file called tweet.rb, then call as follows: ruby tweet.rb username "my tweet" Or you can include your password in the command like so ruby twit.rb username:password "my tweet" (note that this is hugely insecure as your password will wind up in your .history, not to mention being visible to shouldersurfers). Updated: if a post is over the 140-character limit, the script prints back the part of the tweet that would not fit. This makes it easier to trim down overly long posts.

]]> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:23:47 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/6594/post-to-twitter-from-the-shell/ http://snipplr.com/view/5584/get-the-length-of-a-string-on-the-command-line-with-ruby/ The following command prints 21.

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