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.

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1 678 posted 16 years ago by plexus

Ruby remove non-word characters

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1 581 posted 16 years ago by inkdeep

Ruby spaces to dashes

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2 557 posted 16 years ago by inkdeep

Ruby file_duplication

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1 596 posted 16 years ago by neil

Ruby initialized_by_hash

provides a tidy way to add initialization by hash to new classes

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1 491 posted 16 years ago by neil

Ruby Irb power tricks with Wirble & Utility-Belt

Note: most of these will be available to the shell and Rails' console too.

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2 713 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby Haml 'nesting within a tag' error

"When using haml, an HTML tag is represented using %tagname, but in the case of an HTML tag with attributes, the representation is %tagname{:attribute => value}. It turns out there must be no whitespace between %tagname and {:attribute => value}....

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1 595 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby order/format of params in method definition

See also p. 348 ("Invoking a Method") of Pickaxe 2nd edition

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1 603 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby What version of Ruby and Rails is this using?

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1 567 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby Ruby heredoc tricks

Following a

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2 598 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby Use regex to match a Ruby substring, and reference it like an index

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1 862 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby optimize Ruby memory usage by avoiding string accumulation

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1 495 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby make Ruby strings behave like files

This is handy for testing, when you need to simulate an open file or open URI. Why, and the Pickaxe book, have better examples

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1 604 posted 16 years ago by cczona

Ruby Execute arbitrary code with different level of error messaging

You can turn off warnings for a section of your code by setting $VERBOSE to nil. Even better is to codify this in a method. Since this method takes a block as its parameter, you can now pass it arbitrary chunks of code to execute without warnings.