Snipplr - plexus

(Ruby) Command line Currency converter

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:06:35 GMT

Command line currency convertor, just copy and paste. I named mine 'coin'. Make sure you have Ruby, Rubygems and Hpricot (gem install hpricot). e.g. ~$ coin 100 eur usd 158.3300 Uses the site xurrency.com.

(Ruby) Resync .srt subtitles

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:20:56 GMT

(Ruby) Array#to_csv

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:51:50 GMT

Ruby's CSV is a nice library, but it needs some sugar.

(Bash) Sed convert multiline whitespace to single newline

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:33:17 GMT

Converts whitespace that spans multiple lines into a single newline, needs improvement

(Other) Crontab header

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:57:22 GMT

I always put this at the top of my crontab files so I remember the right fields

(Ruby) formatted output of DBI result set

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:58:42 GMT

Sometimes I use irb as my database console, DBI is really handy for talking to different db's. Pass this method the result of conn.execute to get it nicely formatted on your screen. (it's a hack, should be more DRY)

(Bash) Import all new files in a subversion working copy

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:42:45 GMT

There's another snippet here that's pure Ruby. This one can be used from the command line directly. The previous version still used Ruby, this one is pure shell.

(Bash) kill processes by regex

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:25:50 GMT